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Artificial intelligence enthusiasts are betting that the technology will help solve the biggest problems facing humanity, from war to global warming, but in practice, these may currently be unrealistic ambitions.
“It’s not about asking the AI, ‘Hey, this is a tough problem. What would you do about it?’ The AI is like, ‘Okay, you need to completely restructure this part of the economy,'” said Michael Leigh, a professor of computer science at Brown University. Terman said.
Litman was in attendance at the South by Southwest (SXSW) arts and technology festival in Austin, Texas, where he just spoke on one of many panels about the potential benefits of artificial intelligence.
“It’s a pipe dream. It’s a bit like science fiction. What people are doing is basically trying to get AI to solve specific problems that they already solve, but just to be more efficient.”
“It’s not just a matter of pressing this button and everything is solved,” he said.
With their hopeful titles (“How to Benefit AGI and Avoid the Robot Apocalypse”) and the constant presence of tech giants, these groups attract large crowds, but they often have more pragmatic goals, such as promoting products.
At a conference titled “Inside the AI Revolution: How AI can empower the world to achieve more,” Microsoft executive Simi Olabisi praised the technology’s use on the company’s cloud service Azure Advantage.
When using Azure’s AI Language capabilities in call centers, “Maybe when a customer calls, they’re angry, and when they end the call, they’re really grateful. Azure AI Language can really capture that emotion and tell that to the business How their customers feel,” she explains.
‘Smarter than humans
The concept of artificial intelligence and its algorithms capable of automating tasks and analyzing large amounts of data has been around for decades.
But last year, with the success of ChatGPT, it took on a whole new dimension. ChatGPT is a generative AI interface launched by OpenAI, an iconic AI startup currently funded primarily by Microsoft.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said they hope to build artificial “general” intelligence, or AGI, that will be “smarter than the average human” and will “advance the human level.”
This spirit was very evident at SXSW, where people talked about “when” AGI will become a reality, not “if.”
Ben Goertzel, a scientist who heads the SingularityNET Foundation and the AGI Association, predicts that general artificial intelligence will emerge in 2029.
“Once you have a machine that can think like a smart person, then in a few years at most you can have a machine that can think a thousand or a million times better than a smart person, because this artificial intelligence can modify itself of source code,” Goetzel said.
Wearing a leopard-print faux fur cowboy hat, he advocates developing general artificial intelligence with “compassion and empathy” and integrating it into robots that “look like us” to ensure that these “super artificial intelligence” and Humans get along well with each other.
David Hanson, the founder of Hanson Robotics who designed Desdemona, a humanoid robot with generative artificial intelligence capabilities, is passionate about The pros and cons of artificial intelligence with superpowers were brainstormed.
He said AI’s “positive disruption… could help solve global sustainability problems, even though people might just create financial trading algorithms that are absolutely effective.”
Hansen worries about the turmoil brought about by artificial intelligence, but notes that humans are already doing a “good job” of playing “survival roulette” with nuclear weapons and triggering “the fastest mass extinction event in human history.”
But “artificial intelligence may hold seeds of intelligence that will blossom and grow into new forms of intelligence that can help us become better,” he said.
“not yet”
Initially, AI should speed up the design of new, more sustainable drugs or materials, proponents of AI say.
Even though “we’re not there yet… In a dream world, AI can handle the complexity and randomness of the real world and… discover entirely new materials that allow us to do things we never thought possible” Investor at Piva Capital Roxanne Tully said: “It’s possible. “
Today, AI is already proving its worth in early warning systems for things like tornadoes and forest fires.
But we still need to evacuate people, or get people to agree to do so in the event of a pandemic, Reed Ghani of Carnegie Mellon University stressed during a panel discussion titled “Can AI Solve Extreme Weather Pandemics?” Vaccination on your own.
“This problem is our fault,” Ghani said. “The inequality is not caused by AI, it’s caused by humans, and I think AI can help a little bit. But only if humans decide to use it to solve the problem.”
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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