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Machine learning pioneer Michael I. Jordan dismantles AI doom rhetoric as "grand moralizing performance"

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Michael I. Jordan, described by Science as "the most influential computer scientist," considers warnings about superintelligence pure science fiction. He calls the resignations of young AI researchers a "grand moralizing performance" and companies' demands for regulation "theater." On Hinton's thesis that the brain can be reproduced in silicon and scaled into superintelligence, he's blunt: "None of the steps in this argument is credible. Here, we're in the land of science fiction."

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