I will start to take Geoff Hinton seriously again (I used to and don’t anymore) when - radiologists actually start losing jobs - he acknowle…

I will start to take Geoff Hinton seriously again (I used to and don’t anymore) when - radiologists actually start losing jobs - he acknowledges that LLMs do sometimes effectively memorize things - he stops over-attributing consciousness to algorithms or at least addresses the possibility of an ELIZA effect until then, he’s a great reminder that prominence in one field doesn’t guarantee sophistication in others—or even being up to date with his own. The godfather of AI says it'll cause "massive unemployment." so I started with the most replaceable employee: me. Hinton: likely mass job loss - "terrible for society" a smarter thing controlled by a dumber one? his count: "zero" soon it'll out-reason us at everything the skill a…

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-06-08