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> Hinton is a Nobel prize winner.

Oh, right, well, then, that makes him an expert on everything, then. Excuse me, I've just got to take a very large dose of Vitamin C; Linus Pauling assures me that it prevents/treats virtually everything.

> Gates has no problems with reality either.

I mean, Gates-era Microsoft was absolutely prone to flights of fancy.

Like, for every hundred things that the industry seizes on as "this will change everything", maybe five ultimately become a thing at all, and maybe one actually does change everything.



To be fair, he is a Nobel Prize winner for his AI research. But that doesn't mean anything since we are all speculating about the proximity of something that clearly doesn't exist -- AGI.




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