During our two-hour lunch, we cover a lot of ground: from nuclear threats (\u201cA normal person assisted by AI will soon be able to build bioweapons and that is terrible. Imagine if an average person in the street could make a nuclear bomb\u201d) to his own AI habits (it is \u201cextremely useful\u201d) and how the chatbot became an unlikely third wheel in his most recent break-up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But first, Hinton launches into an enthusiastic mini-seminar on why artificial intelligence is an appropriate term: \u201cBy any definition of intelligence, AI is intelligent.\u201d Registering the humanities graduate before him, he uses half a dozen different analogies to convince me that AI\u2019s experience of reality is not so distinct from that of humans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt seems very obvious to me. If you talk to these things and ask them questions, it understands,\u201d Hinton continues. \u201cThere\u2019s very little doubt in the technical community that these things will get smarter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p> Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: \u2018AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer\u2019 https:\/\/t.co\/RZu9DMxw7p<\/a><\/p>— Financial Times (@FT) September 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>