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Life-changing eye implant helps blind patients read again

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Demis Hassabis

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There's a "wall of fear-mongering and doomerism" in the AI world right now.

"Worrying about AI today is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars."

Concerns that AI could pose a threat to humanity is "preposterously ridiculous."

Claiming AI poses an existential threat is "such an extreme" and risks "wip[ing] out some of its potential benefits."

"I'm more concerned about... the risks that are here and now [than the existential threat of AI]."

Current AI is "not anywhere close" to posing an existential threat but it could in the future.

AI is the "biggest existential threat" to humanity.

AGI's worst-case scenario would be "lights-out for all of us."

Powerful AI systems "taking control" pose an "existential threat."

AI has a "10 to 25 per cent" chance of destroying humanity.

"The most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI... is that literally everyone on Earth will die."

Does AI Pose an Existential Threat to Humanity?

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Society is more likely to get "cat-level" or "dog-level" AI years before human-level AI.

"[W]e will eventually reach AGI... and quite possibly before the end of this century."

"Superhuman AIs" will be achieved "between a few years and a couple of decades."

"Digital intelligence" could overtake us within "5 to 20 years."

We may achieve "something like AGI or AGI-like in the next decade."

"[W]e could get to real AGI in the next decade."

"Human-level" AI could occur in "two or three years."

"I'd be surprised if we don't have AGI by [2029]."

Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence, and When?

A clinical trial involving 38 patients across 17 sites in five countries tested the Prima electronic eye implant for geographic atrophy, an advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration that affects approximately five million people worldwide.</span

A clinical trial involving 38 patients across 17 sites in five countries tested the Prima electronic eye implant for geographic atrophy, an advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration that affects approximately five million people worldwide.

The Prima device measures 2mm by 2mm with half the thickness of a human hair and is surgically placed under the retina through a procedure lasting under two hours at locations including Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.</span

The Prima device measures 2mm by 2mm with half the thickness of a human hair and is surgically placed under the retina through a procedure lasting under two hours at locations including Moorfields Eye Hospital in London.

Patients wear augmented-reality glasses containing a video camera connected to a waistband computer that processes images using artificial intelligence and converts them into electrical signals sent to the brain via the optic nerve.</span

Patients wear augmented-reality glasses containing a video camera connected to a waistband computer that processes images using artificial intelligence and converts them into electrical signals sent to the brain via the optic nerve.

Trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed 84% of participants could read letters, numbers and words using the device, with patients reading an average of five lines on vision charts they previously could not see.</span

Trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed 84% of participants could read letters, numbers and words using the device, with patients reading an average of five lines on vision charts they previously could not see.

Sheila Irvine, a 70-year-old patient from Wiltshire who described her vision as having two black discs in her eyes, can now read prescriptions, complete crosswords and read ingredient labels on tins after receiving the implant three years ago.</span

Sheila Irvine, a 70-year-old patient from Wiltshire who described her vision as having two black discs in her eyes, can now read prescriptions, complete crosswords and read ingredient labels on tins after receiving the implant three years ago.

Medical experts hope the technology could eventually become available through NHS services within a few years, though the Prima implant is not yet licensed and remains available only through clinical trials with unclear future costs.</span

Medical experts hope the technology could eventually become available through NHS services within a few years, though the Prima implant is not yet licensed and remains available only through clinical trials with unclear future costs.

Electronic Eye Implant Restores Vision in 84% of Patients

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Electronic Eye Implant Restores Vision in 84% of Patients

Electronic Eye implantImplant helpsRestores blindVision patientsin read84% againof Patients

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LeCun

Mitchell

Li

Bengio

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Hinton

Hassabis

Altman

Amodei

Musk

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