2023-07-06 06:43:23
OpenAI control of digital “superintelligence” in progress
OpenAI boss Sam Altman works with his company on controlling digital superintelligences. photo
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Industry experts warn of dangers associated with artificial intelligence. Because people will not be able to control systems with AI, a solution is needed.
The goal is to master the central technical challenges for such a system within four years, it said. OpenAI wants to use a fifth of the available computing capacity for this. The development team should be led by chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.
Even if the “superintelligence” from the computer still seems to be a long way off, OpenAI still believes it to be possible in this decade. It will help solve many problems and be the most momentous invention of mankind.
The move follows a warning from industry experts who believe artificial intelligence risks posing existential threats. One of the signatories is OpenAI boss Sam Altman. The alleged threat was not explained in detail – and critics accused the experts that such warnings distracted from problems of artificial intelligence that already exist today, such as discrimination in algorithms.
Among other things, OpenAI developed the chatbot ChatGPT, which triggered a new hype about artificial intelligence. The program can create sentences that are almost indistinguishable from those of a human. For this purpose, it was trained with enormous amounts of data and, on this basis, estimates word for word how a sentence should continue. However, this principle also ensures that ChatGPT sometimes outputs completely incorrect information.
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