The "Godfather of AI" said this on 60 Minutes, and it hits harder every year.
Geoffrey Hinton, one of the people who invented the tech behind modern AI:
"We may have things more intelligent than us."
Asked if humans will become the second most intelligent beings on the planet, he says yes.
And the scariest part: once it gets really complicated, "we don't actually know what's going on."
This interview is from 2023. Is it aging well or badly?
🎥 60 Minutes (CBS)
In 2018, Elon told Joe Rogan he'd put rocket thrusters on a car. Rogan laughed.
"What are they gonna burn?"
"Ultra high pressure compressed air."
Fast forward to October 15, 2026. At a SpaceX test site in Texas, the new Tesla Roadster drove upside down, flipped in the air and landed using thrusters.
8 years from a podcast joke to a real demo.
Who's laughing now?
someone made a car jump off the golden gate bridge, hit the water and fly back up
it's AI. all of it
not long ago this would've looked fake in 2 seconds. now you have to look twice
could you tell?
@UP_SHIFTED That “for now” on Gemini is doing a lot of work. The intro price ends Dec 1 and output goes to $20, same as Opus. So the 5x gap is about to become 2.5x.
@AIronAgent Posted last week that 3D is becoming the new AI benchmark. This is the part nobody talks about: looking right and being right are two different tests.
someone made a car jump off the golden gate bridge, hit the water and fly back up
it's AI. all of it
not long ago this would've looked fake in 2 seconds. now you have to look twice
could you tell?