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Background

• Hinton was in the news recently¹ for quitting Google, alleging chatbots are getting too smart
• Whittaker was forced out from Google after helping organize a walkout and currently works on Signal

Fun quotes

It’s disappointing to see this autumn-years redemption tour from someone who didn’t really show up when people like Timnit [Gebru] and Meg [Mitchell] and others were taking real risks at a much earlier stage of their careers to try and stop some of the most dangerous impulses of the corporations that control the technologies we’re calling artificial intelligence.

So, if you don’t come out when me and Meg are being fired, if you don’t come out when others are being retaliated against, when research is being suppressed, then you are tacitly endorsing an environment that punishes people for raising concerns.

1. Non-paywalled plain-text version

google: uh oh, chatgpt is hot shit for no reason and we're unable to critically assess competing technology

google: release the unfinished, conceptually questionable LLM chatbot and say it will be a factual search engine AI. demo it live. do it, fools

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