Andrew Ng, a leading AI expert, told The Australian Financial Review that Big Tech hoped to trigger strict regulation.
  • Big Tech is lying about some AI risks to shut down competition, a Google Brain cofounder has said.
  • Andrew Ng told The Australian Financial Review that tech leaders hoped to trigger strict regulation.
  • Some large tech companies didn’t want to compete with open source, he added.
  • people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    All the biggest tech/IT consulting firms that used to hire engineering college freshers by the millions each year have declared they either won’t be recruiting at all this month, or will only be recruiting for senior positions. If AI were to wipe out humanity it’ll probably be through unemployment-related poverty thanks to our incompetent policymakers.