The rise of artificial intelligence has been a topic of debate since OpenAI introduced its generative AI bot ChatGPT in November 2022. From enthusiasts, experts to regulators, everyone has tried to understand what this unprecedented advance in his AI technology means for humanity. The concern is that allowing AI progress without checks and balances could lead to unemployment, data privacy, biased decision-making, and many other problems. Recently, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor tried to explain the phenomenon by comparing the rise of AI to an asteroid heading for Earth.
The MIT professor in question is Max Tegmark, a physicist, cosmologist, and machine learning researcher. Because of his diverse fields of knowledge, he made interesting comparisons to illustrate how people have viewed the rise of AI. ” as an example.
In a recent column for Time, Tegmark said: Years ago”. Surely that would cause global panic among the entire population, right? Tegmark disagrees.
“I feel like I’m living the movie ‘Don’t Look Up’ right now. It’s a threat from another entity. It’s chaotic superintelligence…A recent survey found that half of AI researchers It has been shown to give AI at least a 10% chance of annihilating humanity,” he adds. .
Are you ready for an asteroid impact (or the rise of AI)?
The satirical sci-fi film Don’t Look Up highlights how politics, capitalism, and popular prejudices of people have resulted in the neglect of a giant asteroid that crashed into Earth and wiped out all of humanity. doing.
Similarly, Tegmark says similar opinions are flying around the rise of AI. For example, some companies believe that AI’s super-intelligence is not possible and what they are trying to build is his AGI (artificial general intelligence) that can perform most intelligent tasks a human can do. . He calls it AI denial.
He highlights another similar example where some groups point to AI superintelligence won’t last long. Tegmark disagrees, saying that AI is advancing at an unprecedented rate, so this is a short-term problem, not a long-term problem. Just as the DART mission prepares for an asteroid impact, the AI problem cannot be ignored right now.
Citing many similar examples, Tegmark reiterates that AI problems must be solved today. So that tomorrow it will not lead to the destruction of humanity itself.
