Criticism of Geoff Hinton’s AI metaphors and radiology prediction
A skeptical post contrasts a description of ChatGPT as an “alien being,” attributed to Hinton, with a prediction it says he made roughly a decade earlier: radiologists becoming obsolete within five years.
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A September 16, 2026 post challenges Geoff Hinton’s AI commentary, saying he predicted roughly a decade earlier that radiologists would become obsolete in five years. The author also tentatively recalls Hinton likening GPT-2 to humanity’s caterpillar and GPT-3 to its butterfly, before saying he now describes ChatGPT as an “alien being.”
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