> On the other hand you have (essentially) the entire mainstream academic AI/ML community, who are mainly concerned that the hype is so intense it might lead to another AI winter
This doesn't seem true. E.g. the signatories on the Future of Life Institute's recent open letter about AI progress and safety include:
* Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, co-authors of the #1 AI textbook
* Tom Dietterich, AAAI President
* Eric Horvitz, past AAAI President
* Bart Selman, co-chair of AAAI presidential panel on long-term AI futures
* Francesca Rossi, IJCAI President
* All founders of Deep Mind and Vicarious, two leading AI companies
* Yann LeCun, head of Facebook AI
* Geoffrey Hinton, top academic ML researcher
* Yoshua Bengio, top academic ML researcher
...and many more.
This doesn't seem true. E.g. the signatories on the Future of Life Institute's recent open letter about AI progress and safety include:
* Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, co-authors of the #1 AI textbook
* Tom Dietterich, AAAI President
* Eric Horvitz, past AAAI President
* Bart Selman, co-chair of AAAI presidential panel on long-term AI futures
* Francesca Rossi, IJCAI President
* All founders of Deep Mind and Vicarious, two leading AI companies
* Yann LeCun, head of Facebook AI
* Geoffrey Hinton, top academic ML researcher
* Yoshua Bengio, top academic ML researcher
...and many more.