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Should We Shut Down AI?
Letter Signed by Elon Musk Demanding AI Research Pause Sparks Controversy
The statement has been revealed to have false signatures and researchers have condemned its use of their work
BBC 2 APR 2023
The answer is AI - artificial intelligence - two words we are going to hear a lot about in the coming months.
The picture of the Pope in a Michelin-man style white coat was everywhere online but was made using AI by a computer user from Chicago.
In Yorkshire, 22-year-old Millie Houlton asked AI chatbot ChatGPT to "please help me write a letter to the council, they gave me a parking ticket" and sent it off. The computer's version of her appeal successfully got her out of a £60 fine.
Also this week, without much fanfare, the UK government published draft proposals on how to regulate this emerging technology, while a letter signed by more than 1,000 tech expets including Tesla boss Elon Musk called on the world to press pause on the development of more advanced AI because it poses "profound risks to humanity".
You are not alone if you don't understand all the terms being bandied about:
A chatbot is, in its basic form, a computer program that's meant to simulate a conversation you might have with a human on the internet - like when you type a question to ask for help with a booking. The launch, and explosion of a much more advanced one, ChatGPT, has got tongues wagging in recent months
Artificial Intelligence in its most simple form is technology that allows a computer to think or act in a more human way
That includes machine learning when, through experience, computers can learn what to do without being given explicit instructions
It's the speed at which the technology is progressing that led those tech entrepreneurs to intervene, with one AI leader even writing in a US magazine this week: "Shut it down."
Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX mogul Elon Musk is one of those calling for a pause to the development of advanced AI
Estonian billionaire Jaan Tallinn is one of them. He was one of the brains behind internet communication app Skype but is now one of the leading voices trying to put the brakes on.
I asked him, in an interview for this Sunday's show, to explain the threat as simply as he could.
"Imagine if you substitute human civilisation with AI civilisation," he told me. "Civilisation that could potentially run millions of times faster than humans... so like, imagine global warming was sped up a million times.
"One big vector of existential risk is that we are going to lose control over our environment.
"Once we have AIs that we a) cannot stop and b) are smart enough to do things like geoengineering, build their own structures, build their own AIs, then, what's going to happen to their environment, the environment that we critically need for our survival? It's up in the air."
And if governments don't act? Mr Tallinn thinks it's possible to "apply the existing technology, regulation, knowledge and regulatory frameworks" to the current generation of AI, but says the "big worry" is letting the technology race ahead without society adapting: "Then we are in a lot of trouble."
It's worth noting they are not saying they want to put a stop to the lot but pause the high-end work that is training computers to be ever smarter and more like us.
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