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[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Geoffrey Hinton, whose work on AI, including at Google, has earned him the moniker "Godfather of AI", echoed those warnings on a recent podcast.

"This is a very different kind of technology," he said, pushing back against arguments that job losses from AI will be outweighed as the technology creates new kinds of positions, in a pattern seen with earlier technological leaps.

"If it can do all mundane human intellectual labor, then what new jobs is it going to create? You'd have to be very skilled to have a job that it couldn't just do."

They have to get this kicked off soon before Democrats are back in charge. It's going to be worse than most people think. China has spent years getting ready for this. Most people in USA think it's just a trendy news hype.