Artificial Intelligence AI
The surprising statement of a top researcher
Top OpenAI researcher made an astonishing statement: Artificial intelligence can already gain consciousness. Ilya Sutskever, a scientist in the OpenAI research group, wrote on Twitter that conscious ”.
The widely accepted idea among artificial intelligence researchers is that technology has made great strides in the last decade, but it is still far from human intelligence without being close to experiencing the world consciously. Sutskever has long been concerned with general artificial intelligence. or AGI, which would refer to AI operating at the human or superhuman level.
During his appearance in the documentary AI "iHuman", for example, he even stated that those AGIs will "solve all the problems we have today", before warning that they will also present the potential to create infinite dictatorships. stable ”.
Can artificial intelligence be conscious? This tweet, however, marks the first time that Sutskever, who co-founded OpenAI with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and CEO Sam Altman in 2015, appears to have claimed that artificial intelligence is already conscious. the fact that OpenAI was established as a non-profit organization specifically designed to reduce the existing risks posed by sensitive machines. Also, the group is no stranger to drama and controversy.
In 2019, Musk left OpenAI, amid news that the group had created a "fake news" text generator that some considered too dangerous to launch. Musk said he was leaving the organization, which was founded in 2015, because he "did not agree with what OpenAI wanted" and had not been involved in it for more than a year.
Just one month after this event, OpenAI announced that it was no longer a nonprofit and was now operating on a "capped profit" model.
Since then, Musk seems to have moved further away from his original critical position, to the point where this year he prophesied that Tesla's future humanoid robots "could play a role in AGI" - although he added that Tesla will do everything possible to keep their AI under control.
Hyper-advanced AI may be unavoidable. Progress may also disappear and we will never see it or it will take a long time.
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