“If you’ve become addicted to likes, it’s my fault: know that I helped create them.” “If while you’re surfing the net and talking about something you’re bombarded with ads about that thing, blame me.” In the age of social networks, engineers and computer scientists, the fathers of the technologies used without scruples by the big tech giants, have repented en masse.
Geoffrey Hinton even resigned from his scientific position at Google, to be freer to explain in detail to the public the dangers he faces.
The first theme, which has already been denounced by Jen Easterly, the US government’s highest authority in the field of cyber security, concerns the extreme difficulty of identifying and neutralizing the many “malicious actors” who are preparing to use the enormous capabilities of artificial intelligence, to spread fake images, videos, documents and computer codes.
The truth, increasingly uncertain, risks becoming irrelevant. And the risk of increasingly sophisticated attacks by hackers capable of paralyzing entire computer systems, bringing companies or even essential infrastructures (electricity, water, computer networks) of entire countries to their knees.
When over a thousand academics and entrepreneurs led by Elon Musk came out and sounded the alarm after the global release of ChatGpt and to demand a 6-month moratorium on all research in this area, many suspected an upset on the part of the owner Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX.
Or an attempt to slow down technological development to give X.AI, his artificial intelligence startup, time to catch up.
But even Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI and the “father” of ChatGpt, admits that the new technology carries great risks as well as immense opportunities, and must be handled with caution, while a few weeks ago, after presenting an even more advanced system, GPT 4, another letter from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence calls for extreme caution, also signed by Eric Horvitz, chief scientist at Microsoft.
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