AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’

our biggest challenge will be accepting we’re not the only intelligent beings

But it isn’t challenging at all. All animals have some level of intelligence. Some of them even rather comparable to us. And the probability of existence of some aliens doesn’t sound too crazy, they might be quite clever too. See no problem in acceptance here.

See no problem in acceptance here.

Mice? Super intelligent ones?

I read some popular-science paper where they claimed that mice even have friends. That demands some nontrivial intelligence I think.

Super intelligent

But I suppose Trump is somewhat cleverer than a mouse.

I read some popular-science paper

The mice that I was thinking about have been researched by the famous Douglas Adams, and they were by far the most intelligent beings on this planet, as long as they stayed here.

What do you want to do tonight?