Chief executive officers of some of the leading companies in artificial intelligence, including OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s DeepMind, and Anthropic, have joined a growing chorus of leaders warning about the potential risk of extinction the fast-developing technology.
Jackie Davalos for Bloomberg News:
A brief statement released Tuesday by the the nonprofit Center for AI Safety said, “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
The statement was signed by more than 350 executives and researchers including Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, Demis Hassabis, who heads DeepMind and Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, a startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans.
In March, more than 1,100 industry leaders including Elon Musk, University of California Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak, advocated for a six-month pause on training powerful AI models…
Earlier this month, Geoffrey Hinton — one of the so-called godfathers of artificial intelligence who spent decades revolutionizing the field and helping to create the advanced machine-learning technologies of today — announced he was leaving Google’s AI research team and said companies were moving too fast on deploying AI to the public.
MacDailyNews Note: See all of the signatories on the “Statement on AI Risk” in which AI experts and public figures express their concern about AI risk here.
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Groupthink! Idiots!!
PLease ignore aLL these simpleTons.
I see TWO separate issues. 1) There are media types who are portraying ChatGPT as “AI” and the beginning of the end. The fact is that ChatGPT is like the Palm Pilot compared to the iPhone 14 . . . it’s just an early iteration of AI (and not General AI) . . . 2) then there are the experts working in the labs, who are multiple generations past what they have shown to the public, and they’re thinking, “Sh*t, this could be dangerous” . . . . When tech leaders say, “The government will need to step in at some point and set up some guidelines and regulations” — I think, “Ya, Mitch, Nancy, and Diane — just the 90 year olds we need to save us.”
Agree that large language models are not going to lead to extinction (other than the extinction of millions of jobs). But the holy grail of General AI? Yeah, that’s pretty scary when you really think about it. Where are Asimov’s “three laws of robotics” when you really need them?
I don’t know that ChatGPT will result in the loss of jobs as much as enabling me to do something that used to take me three hours and cut it down to 30 minutes (because even the ChatGPT stuff still needs to be edited by me).
A.I. may bring extinction to Apple for a different reason if they don’t get up to speed.
What’s the chance Apple announces dedicated GPUs for A.I. data centers. With 90% of new data centers going with Nvidia how can apple keep up in terms of hardware with there mobile chip designs with slower CPUs with on-board GPUs. Hopefully apple announces A.I. hardware that focuses on competitive enterprise data center hardware.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h100/
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has more relevant vision and instinct than Cook. Im betting Cook could never build a company like Apple or Nvidia from scratch. He inherited his position, he has done a good job managing the status quo; iPhone 12,13,15,16 ….. But he lacks the instinct and vision to risk making bold decisions. Apple has went from industry leader; daredevil that took crazy risk and invented their own path forward to the Apple of today the safest, most predictable tech company around. It’s sad to say but Apple is now boring and predictable. Cook is a baby sitter not a visionary leader. Sure Apple still makes a great products, but everything is a new iteration on the same good product they made 10 years ago. even the watch was already in development when Steve passed. Not that there is anything wrong with consistency but dose anyone really think Apple will lead on A.I. leadership in the next decade. Instead we will get FoMO Products and services(streaming, cars) and services like banking. Apple’s path forward seems to be defensive. AAPL will make a lot of money but don’t expect vision and leadership in computers and A.I. Hopefully I’m wrong WWDC is less than a week away. Who is excited ? whats the chance we re blown away vs disappointed.
Create an AI warrior that prevents extinction. Done.
(We’re all going to die anyway.)
Not to worry. Batman, Spiderman, and the Incredible Hulk will save us from the dastardly A.I.
It was Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Captain America, Falcon, Vision, and Scarlet Witch who stopped the dastardly A.I. Unfortunately Quicksilver died trying and Hulk was so scarred by the experience that he moved to Sakaar.
The statement was signed by more than 350 executives and researchers including Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, Demis Hassabis, who heads DeepMind and Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, a startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans.
I guess the third time’s the charm??
Yet when it comes to the risk of global extinction, AI will never be more dangerous than Trump… 😱
This is true…
From all the wars he started?
“Yet when it comes to the risk of global extinction, AI will never be more dangerous than Trump…”
Opinionated big pile of horsesh*t and the brainless leftist lost glasses chimes in.
Exactly the OPPOSITE is TRUE. Trump DA ONE to stand up to tyranny and rouge governments worldwide while Dementia Joe without a clue hides in the White House…
Interestingly enough the human species may indeed go extinct if one programmed an AI directive to save the world.
interestingly enough Road Warrior may indeed go extinct if one programmed an AI directive to save MDN from stupid.
— see what i did 🙂
just kidding we love you RW, MDN wouldnt be the same without your input !!
It’s good to be back. The pandemic has proven quite an opportunity for me. After all about 100 years ago there was that trifecta of pandemic, major war and a renaissance. The environment it right for it.
So, your local government and police in OZ finally allow you to leave your house and speak. Too bad you have NOTHINGS enlightening to say and full of hate for the USA…