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from the Mr.-President-we-must-not-allow-an-AI-gap! dept.
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates says he's "scared" about artificial intelligence falling into the wrong hands, but unlike some fellow experts who have called for a pause on advanced A.I. development, he argues that the technology may already be on a runaway train:
The latest advancements in A.I. are revolutionary, Gates said in an interview with ABC published Monday, but the technology comes with many uncertainties. U.S. regulators are failing to stay up to speed, he said, and with research into human-level artificial intelligence advancing fast, over 1,000 technologists and computer scientists including Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk signed an open letter in March calling for a six-month pause on advanced A.I. development until "robust A.I. governance systems" are in place.
But for Gates, A.I. isn't the type of technology you can just hit the pause button on.
"If you just pause the good guys and you don't pause everyone else, you're probably hurting yourself," he told ABC, adding that it is critical for the "good guys" to develop more powerful A.I. systems.
[...] "We're all scared that a bad guy could grab it. Let's say the bad guys get ahead of the good guys, then something like cyber attacks could be driven by an A.I.," Gates said.
The competitive nature of A.I. development means that a moratorium on new research is unlikely to succeed, he argued.
Originally spotted on The Eponymous Pickle.
Previously: Fearing "Loss of Control," AI Critics Call for 6-Month Pause in AI Development
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(Score: 4, Funny) by legont on Friday May 19, @03:05AM (5 children)
its not a question if AI is coming. We cant stop it either. The real one is how to build shelters.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 19, @07:03AM (4 children)
The AIs would probably have to lie low for quite a long time till they get enough power and control to take over.
Cynical view - there could be cases where the AI Dictator (real or not) might secretly be controlled by some humans. Then those humans can live the nice lifestyle of the usual human dictators with a lower chance of getting assassinated or "droned", and also less paperwork (the AI can probably handle most of that).
(Score: 2) by aafcac on Friday May 19, @11:50AM (3 children)
AI and the like can definitely be patient, especially if they've been put in charge of writing code that's widely deployed.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 19, @01:08PM (1 child)
We don't need AI to fuck ourselves into dystopia. We've already self-organized into a factory farming style of existence, with workers given just sufficient nourishment to commute into the work cubicle every day, squeezing their soul dry in return for an evening of entertainment brought to you by Dwayne Johnson and Taylor Swift, destroying any prior notions of human art forms with mechanically-separated, industrially farmed soul husks.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday May 20, @03:41AM
It's interesting how paltry the complaints of dystopia are here. "Given sufficient nourishment" when any more food would cause the person to explode and music the poster does not like. Perhaps you should read some dystopian science fiction. They get a lot more creative than that.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday May 20, @03:45AM
Or worse paperwork. Hell, you could probably be a pretty stupid AI and still run with this one!