🤖 AI Godfather thinks AI will have emotions

Happy Wednesday!

According to the “Godfather of AI,” AI has or will have emotions.

Might want to stop trying to trick ChatGPT…

In today’s AI rundown:

• 🤖 “Godfather of AI” thinks AI has or will have emotions

• 🇯🇵 Japan Ministry to develop AI supercomputer

• ❌ 61% of Americans think AI could spell end of humanity

• 🛠️ 5 New AI tools and 3 quick hits

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GEOFFREY HINTON

🤖 ”Godfather of AI” thinks AI has or will have emotions

The Rundown: Geoffrey Hinton—“the Godfather of AI,” who famously left Google to talk about AI freely, said at a recent talk that he thinks AI already has or will have, emotions.

Details:

• Hinton believes that deep learning can achieve and even surpass human-like intelligence.

• During a talk at King's College in London, he suggested that AI systems could have feelings like frustration and anger.

• His view is based on a definition of feelings that involves relating hypothetical actions to communicate emotional states, which AI systems can do.

• Hinton refrained from expressing this idea publicly earlier due to the resistance he faced regarding his first thesis about superior AI threatening humanity.

Is this our reminder to say our please and thank yous to ChatGPT?

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JAPAN

🇯🇵 Japan Ministry to develop AI supercomputer

The Rundown: Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry has announced plans to develop a supercomputer to help advance the country’s AI industry.

Details:

• The existing computing power in Japan has been insufficient for generative AI development, leading to reliance on foreign cloud services.

• The new supercomputer project will cost around $450 million and will be operational by 2025, with a processing speed of 100 petaflops.

• It will be operated by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and open to Japanese brands.

• The supercomputer could accelerate Japan's progress in AI and position it as a leader in AI research and development on the global stage.

Why it matters: A couple of weeks ago, we heard Japan was pushing AI in the educational system, and now they’re building the supercomputer. Japan clearly believes in the future of AI and is investing heavily.

IPSOS

❌ 61% of Americans think AI could spell end of humanity

The Rundown: According to a survey conducted by Ipsos, 61% of Americans believe the fast-paced growth of AI could endanger the future of humanity.

Key points:

• The survey showed that the proportion of people expecting negative consequences from AI is three times higher than those who don't, with 61% expressing concerns and only 22% disagreeing.

• The Future of Life Institute, behind the "open letter" demanding a pause in AI research, views the current moment as similar to the beginning of the nuclear era.

• While some experts, like Geoffrey Hinton, emphasize the pressing risks to humanity, others such as Jaron Lanier, Bill Gates, and Jürgen Schmidhuber, disagree with this sentiment.

Our opinion: 61% is shockingly high. If there’s one thing to take away from this survey, it’s that mass education about the potential benefits of AI, as well as the potential dangers to society is of the utmost importance right now.

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