An unreasonable fear of A.I.?
A friend sent me this link:
‘Godfather of A.I.’ leaves Google after a decade to warn society of technology he’s touted
Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” is leaving his role at Google and plans to warn about the risks of the technology he’s promoted.
And asked, "When you read stuff like this do you get the irony of it?"
My answer was, "No. It has all happened before. More or less."
The Victorian Belief That a Train Ride Could Cause Instant Insanity
“Railway madmen” were thought to be activated by the sounds and motion of train travel.
Joseph Hayes
Early Trains Were Thought to Make Women’s Uteruses Fly Out
Hold on to your uterus: Early modes of transportation had some fretting that their bodies would be forever changed.
Janet Burns
