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Nobel scientist calls Trump 'senile felon' and spots a troubling flaw
What happened
AlterNet reports that Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton called President Donald Trump a “corrupt, senile felon” and said Trump understands “almost nothing” about artificial intelligence. In a Guardian interview published Tuesday, Hinton specifically criticized Trump’s demand that AI be called “superintelligence,” a term that already refers to systems exceeding human intelligence.
Hinton also accused Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel of rejecting democracy and wanting to control society, with Trump serving as a useful instrument. He argued that…
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