Andrew Ng, a leading AI expert, told The Australian Financial Review that Big Tech hoped to trigger strict regulation.
  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    10·
    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    A leading AI expert and Google Brain cofounder said Big Tech companies were stoking fears about the technology’s risks to shut down competition.

    Google Brain was a deep-learning AI research team that merged with the DeepMind division earlier this year.

    Andrew Ng, an adjunct professor at Stanford University who taught OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, told The Australian Financial Review that the biggest tech companies hoped to trigger strict regulation with the “bad idea that AI could make us go extinct.”

    “There are definitely large tech companies that would rather not have to try to compete with open source, so they’re creating fear of AI leading to human extinction,” he told the news outlet.

    Governments around the world are looking to regulate AI, citing concerns over safety, potential job losses, and even the risk of human extinction.

    Ng did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment, made outside normal working hours.

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  • velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml
    5·
    8 months ago

    I’ve watched some of his lectures online. Truly an amazing teacher. Little what I know about machine learning and deep learning comes from him.

      • velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml
        3·
        8 months ago

        I got them for free on Coursera. It’s just that you have to finish them quickly in the span of two to three months. Since I skipped ML and went directly with DL (ANNs), I have some gap in my mind, especially on statistical techniques.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
          45·
          8 months ago

          Yeah, my stats knowledge is somewhat weak as well, but the course at least gave me some foundation for understanding how this stuff works.

          • James Dreben :mw:@mastodon.world
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            8 months ago

            @yogthos @velox_vulnus No one asked so I apologize for interjecting 🙈 but Harvard’s CS181 course has a lot of good material free online I think. I strongly recommend those problem sets to get into the parts of stats most relevant to ML.

            STAT110 is also online with even more material I think but is way more general and non programming-y.

  • andruid@lemmy.ml
    3·
    8 months ago

    Honestly the AI safety concerns of alignment I feel are exasperated by corporations, which we already don’t have good ways to keep aligned to the interests of the general public.