{"id":213991,"date":"2023-09-05T19:05:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=213991"},"modified":"2023-09-05T19:05:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:05:20","slug":"claims-ai-will-escape-our-control-and-threaten-humanity-are-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/technology\/claims-ai-will-escape-our-control-and-threaten-humanity-are-ridiculous\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims AI will ‘escape our control’ and threaten humanity are ‘ridiculous’"},"content":{"rendered":"
Claims artificial intelligence will 'escape our control' and threaten humanity are 'ridiculous', according to one of its pioneers.<\/p>\n
Yann LeCun is one of three 'AI godfathers' who won the 2018 Turing Award for their work on the networks.<\/p>\n
The others \u2013<\/span> Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio \u2013<\/span> have recently warned about the dangers. <\/p>\n READ MORE: AI will be 'impossible' to control and use tactics 'incomprehensible' to humans<\/b><\/p>\n But LeCun, who is Meta's chief AI scientist and a New York University professor, disagrees.<\/p>\n He dismissed the idea that we magically discover the secret to AI, turn on the machine and all of a sudden it becomes way more intelligent than us and then within minutes they will have invented all kinds of stuff that we don't understand, and it will 'escape our control'.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n "This scenario is ridiculous,'' he said.<\/p>\n He joked: "Getting the system to run for about 20 minutes without crashing is really hard.<\/p>\n "Imagining that the system somehow is going to replicate itself all across the world is just preposterous,'' he added.<\/p>\n Hinton, Bengio and other leading tech experts have warned of the dangers if AI should fall into the wrong hands or become so advanced it decides to dispense with humans.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Execs \u2013<\/span> including SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter chief Elon Musk \u2013<\/span> called in a public letter for AI research to be paused so safeguards can be put in place. <\/p>\n LeCun called the letter "wrong and useless" because delaying research would be "pointless".<\/p>\n He suggested the decision by Sam Altman – chief executive of ChatGPT developer OpenAI \u2013<\/span> to sign the statement could be motivated by "regulatory capture".<\/p>\n "OpenAI is in a position where they believe they are ahead so the right thing to do is slam the door behind you,'' LeCun said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The EU has voted to approve the AI Act which will attempt to regulate the technology when it becomes law next year.<\/p>\n LeCun said he was not against regulating AI but was opposed to restricting research.<\/p>\n His lab \u2013<\/span> which is called Fair (Fundamental AI Research) and has access to one of the fastest supercomputers \u2013<\/span> is committed to producing `open source' work meaning it will be freely-shared. <\/p>\n LeCun has predicted in a few years ChatGPT and other similar models 'will not be used any more' due to their limitations.<\/p>\n He said they do not reason or have a real understanding of the world and are less intelligent than a child or animal.<\/p>\n "So machine learning really sucks,'' he added.<\/p>\n For more shocking stories from the Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters<\/i><\/b>
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