A Canadian godfather of AI calls for a 'pause' on the technology he helped create via financialpost
It’s not only the technology’s potential that is causing unease, but the speed at which it is advancing. OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in November and it already has released an even more powerful update, ChatGPT-4. Bengio, Musk and their co-signatories said they worry about an arms race, as Alphabet Inc. and the other big technology companies rally to keep pace with OpenAI, a San Fransisco-based company backed by Microsoft Corp.
Though there still is a way to go before AI reaches human-level intelligence, Bengio said at the March 29 press conference that it is already powerful enough to make a human interlocutor believe they are speaking with another human. The technology could be used to “tackle climate change and biodiversity survival, to uphold human rights, for health applications,” but it’s not, Prud’homme said. Instead, AI threatens to deepen the prejudice and racism already present in society by basing its output on non-inclusive datasets.
Governments can and should be involved in AI, Prud’homme said, adding that the “self-regulation of companies is not going to suffice; we need public authorities, democratic authorities to come up with regulation and protection of human rights and democratic principles.”
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