Framing artificial intelligence as an existential threat is merely a doomsaying tactic. There may be more to this fear campaign than meets the eye, says this researcher.
But ChatGPT isn’t a research breakthrough as much as it is a product. The technology it is based on is several years old. An early version of its underlying model, GPT-3, was released in 2020 with many of the same capabilities. It just wasn’t easily accessible online for everyone to play with.
The same day that paper was submitted, The Future of Life Institute published an open letter calling for a six-month pause on training AI models more powerful than GPT-4, allowing everyone to take stock and plan ahead. Some of the AI luminaries who signed it expressed concern that artificial general intelligence poses an existential threat to humans, and that ChatGPT is too close to artificial general intelligence for comfort.
Second, many of the more catastrophic artificial general intelligence scenarios depend on premises I find implausible. For instance, there seems to be a prevailing assumption that sufficient intelligence amounts to limitless real-world power. If this was true, more scientists would be billionaires. File Photo. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before a Senate Judiciary Privacy, Technology & the Law Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, May 16.
. That’s despite the fact that Meta is almost certainly a leader in AI research; it produced PyTorch, the machine-learning framework OpenAI used to make GPT-3.
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