People love to bring this up, and it was a silly thing to say -- particularly since he didn't seem to understand that radiologists only spend a small part of their time reading scans.
But he said it in the context of a Q&A session that happened to be recorded. Unless you're a skilled politician who can give answers without actually saying anything, you're going to say silly things once in a while in unscripted settings.
Besides that, I'd hardly call Geoffrey Hinton an AI evangelist. He's more on the AI doomer side of the fence.
But he said it in the context of a Q&A session that happened to be recorded. Unless you're a skilled politician who can give answers without actually saying anything, you're going to say silly things once in a while in unscripted settings.
Besides that, I'd hardly call Geoffrey Hinton an AI evangelist. He's more on the AI doomer side of the fence.