Artificial General Intelligence is the Answer, says OpenAI CEO – Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Posted: May 18, 2023 at 12:55 am

News May 11, 2023 2 Artificial Intelligence The tech optimism talk just got a little vague News May 11, 2023 2 Artificial Intelligence

The tech optimism talk just got a little more bizarre from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Altman is confident that artificial intelligence is going to better our world in countless ways; sometimes, however, he doesnt specify just how thats going to happen. Other days it seems like hes actually on the doomsday train. Which is it? Is AI going to save us and pilot us into a transhumanist eternity or will it enslave us forever and diminish everything that makes us human? Maybe its both at this point! Maggie Harrison writes in a new blog at Futurism,

Its true that AGI could, in theory, give humans a helping hand in curing some of our ills. But such an AGI, and AGI as a concept altogether, is still entirely theoretical. Many experts doubt that such a system could ever be realized at all, and if it is, we havent figured out how to make existing AIssafe and unbiased. Ensuring that a far more advanced AGI is benevolent is a tall and perhaps impossible task.

In a recent Mind Matters podcast episode, mathematician John Lennox noted that one of the fundamental challenges of the AI revolution is ethics. How can you program a machine to act ethically in the world? Technology is only as good or bad as its programmers. The ethics of AI surveillance technology gets quite murky when its utilized to invade someones privacy, for instance, or when computer programs learn extensive information about a person in cahoots with Big Tech to leverage users attention, time, and habits. We need Altman to specify: what does he mean by better when talking about the potential benefits of a concept that remains, at the moment, highly theoretical?

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