Geoffrey Hinton - Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?He respond to the AI criticism that LLMs hallucinate, by saying that human memory is just as bad. He gives as an example an analysis of John Dean's Watergate testimony:In this profound keynote, Vector co-founder Geoffrey Hinton explores the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence and its potential to surpass human intelligence. Drawing from decades of expertise, Hinton shares his growing concerns about AI's existential risks while examining fundamental questions about consciousness, understanding, and the nature of intelligence itself.
John Dean, the former counsel to President Richard Nixon, testified to the Senate Watergate Investigating Committee about conversations that later turned out to have been tape recorded. Comparison of his testimony with the actual transcripts shows systematic distortion at one level of analysis combined with basic accuracy at another. Many of the distortions reflected Dean's own self-image; he tended to recall his role as more central than it really was. Moreover, his memory for even the “gist” of conversations was quite poor except where that gist had been rehearsed in advance or frequently repeated.Wow. John Dean was the White House lawyer, and he never should have been allowed to testify against Pres. Nixon. But he did, and recited events in extraordinary detail. I did not know that his recollection was mostly wrong.
I had read that the Woodward-Bernstein accounts were mostly wrong, to the extent that facts could be checked.
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Roger,
Poke a bit into who exactly Bob Woodward is and what he did before he became a so called 'reporter'. Then ask yourself what the hell was a former Naval military intelligence officer, now a very green newspaper reporter doing at a major newspaper (which was supposedly very skeptical of the military) writing articles about a sitting president...the man was barely fit to be a copy editor, much less involved with such a story. Woodward's friends in the intelligence and military community were very much at odds with Nixon, they were illegally spying on him and Nixon was investigating them right back and discovering all kinds of dirty little secrets the military/intelligence complex didn't want exposed.
Nixon was a victim of the deep state coup. He threatened the CIA and realized the military was lying to him about what was really going on in Vietnam, as well as spying on him and the previous president. They wanted him gone, and made it happen. Nothing much has changed sadly.
Watergate was a Deepstate operation designed to wrest control from a president who was actively trying to curtail their power. If you want to read something far far more disturbing, look into the “Moorer-Radford affair” and see what was going on behind the scenes.
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