In January, the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton gave a lecture to Are We Doomed?, a course at the University of Chicago. He spoke via Zoom about whether artificial intelligence poses an existential threat. He was cheerful and expansive and apparently certain that everything was going to go terribly wrong, and soon. âI timed my life perfectly,â Hinton, who is seventy-six, told the class. âI was born just after the end of the Second World War. I was a teen-ager before there was AIDS. And now Iâm going to die before the end.â
Most of the several dozen students had not been alive for even a day of the twentieth century; they laughed. In advance of Hintonâs talk, they had read about how A.I. could simplify the engineering of synthetic bioweapons and concentrate surveillance power into the hands of the few, and how a rogue A.I. could relentlessly pursue its goals regardless of the intentions of its makersâthe whole grim caboodle. Hintonâwho was a leader in the development of machine learning and who, since resigning from Google, last year, has become a public authority on A.I. threatsâwas asked about the efficacy of safeguards on A.I. âMy advice is to be seventy-six,â he said. More laughter. A student followed up with a question about what careers he saw being eliminated by A.I. âItâs the first time Iâve seen anything that makes it good to be old,â he replied. He recommended becoming a plumber. âWe all think whatâs special about us is our intelligence, but it might be the sort of physiology of our bodies . . . is whatâs, in the end, the last thing thatâs better,â he said.
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Sniff Test - A maverick perfumer tries to make his mark on a storied fashion house.
What does conspicuous consumption smell like? On a December afternoon in 2013, the Parisian perfumer Francis Kurkdjian was scheduled to meet with the renowned French crystal manufacturer Baccarat at the companyâs chandelier-crammed headquarters, near the Arc de Triomphe. The C.E.O. at the time, Daniela Riccardi, had commissioned Kurkdjian to create a limited-edition fragrance to mark the companyâs two-hundred-andfiftieth anniversary. Baccarat planned to produce two hundred and f ifty diamond-cut crystal flacons of the new perfume, priced at three thousand euros each, and wanted the scent to reflect the quality and opulence of its vessel.
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