“I console myself with the normal excuse: If I hadn’t done it, somebody else would have.”
Hinton spent more than a decade at Google and was fine with its stewardship until Microsoft launched the OpenAI-powered Bing and Google hit code red. He used to think smarter-than-human AI was 30 to 50 years away. He no longer does. Google’s answer is Jeff Dean promising to innovate boldly. The man who built the thing quit so he could warn people about it, and his old employer replied with a slogan.