Astral Codex Ten

Geoff Hinton

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Geoff Hinton

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Geoff Hinton is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between March 22, 2022 and July 19, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “people seem very impressed with Geoff Hinton”; “The top signatures are Geoff Hinton”; “just like Geoff Hinton, Bill Gates, Sam Altman, Daniel Dennett”. It most often appears alongside Wikipedia, Yoshua Bengio, Anthropic.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 4
  • Issue count: 4
  • First seen: March 22, 2022
  • Last seen: July 19, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring
March 22, 2022 · Original source
AI seems to have its share of geniuses: for example, people seem very impressed with Geoff Hinton. And AI alignment - the subfield I’m most familiar with, so new and small that it’s controversial whether it should be considered a science at all - is absolutely full of geniuses. I mean, I can’t assess whether they’re right about anything, I just mean that there are a couple of individuals who have developed entire new paradigms, who are widely acknowledged as way above the rest of the field, and who everyone expects the next interesting result to come from.
Links For May 2023
June 01, 2023 · Original source
Can’t even list all the new people who have come out as AI x-risk believers, but you can just read the CAIS statement. The top signatures are Geoff Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei; aside from the usual suspects, they also have Bruce Schneier (computer security expert) , Dawn Song (computer scientist and security expert), Andy Clark (professor of cognitive philosophy, wrote Surfing Uncertainty), Eliezer Yudkowsky (he didn't sign the last one because he disagreed with specifics, but he's here), and a former US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense.
Inline links: CAIS statement
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism
November 28, 2023 · Original source
I don’t want the takeaway from this post to be “Sure, you may hate EA because it does a lot of work on AI - but come on, it also does a lot of work on global health and poverty!” I’m proud of all of it. I believe - just like Geoff Hinton, Bill Gates, Sam Altman, Daniel Dennett, etc - that there’s a pretty serious risk of human extinction from AI over the next few decades. I can’t imagine believing this and not thinking it’s important to prepare for. EA has done a great job working on this (see list of accomplishments above), and I think the AI and x-risk people have just as much to be proud of as the global health and animal welfare people.
Inline links: just like
Your Book Review: How Language Began
July 19, 2024 · Original source
AI researcher Geoff Hinton (800,000 = 1.60 Chomskys)
Inline links: Geoff Hinton