Geoffrey Hinton

And a lot of the details are wrong if it's from a long time ago.

That's what chatbots are doing too.

The chatbots don't store strings of words.

They don't store particular events.

What they do is they make them up when you ask them about them.

And they often get details wrong, just like people.

So the fact that they confabulate makes them much more like people, not less like people.

Yeah, we've created some artificial overconfidence at least.

Oh, that's how it differs from things like nuclear weapons.

It's got a huge upside.

With things like atom bombs, there wasn't much upside.

They did try using them for fracking in Colorado, but that didn't work out so well, and you can't go there anymore.

But basically, atom bombs are just for destroying things.

So with AI, it's got a huge upside, which is why we developed it.

It's going to be wonderful in things like healthcare, where it's going to mean everybody can get really good diagnosis.

In North America, actually, I'm not sure if this is the United States or the United States plus Canada, because we used to just think about North America, but now Canada doesn't want to be part of that lot.

The 51st state!

In North America...

About 200,000 people a year die because doctors diagnosed them wrong.

AI is already better than doctors at diagnosis, particularly if you take an AI and make several copies of it and tell the copies to play different roles and talk to each other.