A leading researcher, who will attend this week’s AI safety summit in London, warns of ‘real threat to the public conversation’

AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert::A leading researcher, who will attend this week’s AI safety summit in London, warns of ‘real threat to the public conversation’

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2210·
    1 year ago

    Aidan Gomez, co-author of a research paper that helped create the technology behind chatbots…

    Is anyone else tired of warnings about the dangers of a technology from the jackass who invented it?

    • BetaDoggo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The paper they’re referring to is Attention is all you need, the paper that first demonstrated the transformers architecture, primarily focused on machine translation though also found to perform exceptionally for language modeling. Blaming him for others’ misuse is like blaming the inventor of the hunting rifle for assault rifles.