Artificial Intelligence: A Discovery That Calls Into Doubt The Existence Of Human Intellect!

During an interview at the MIT Technology Review, the “Godfather of AI” expressed concern about how humans may exploit the AI capabilities they helped develop, mentioning Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He knows that many who seek to exploit these instruments are dishonest individuals like Putin or DeSantis. They aim to use them to influence elections or win wars. However, according to Hinton, generative artificial intelligence tools will soon be able to create the “subgoals,” meaning the computers can determine how to make more significant judgements that may be abused.

Do not for a second believe that Putin will not build intelligent robots to murder Ukrainians, Hinton said. He wouldn’t second-guess. For them to succeed, one doesn’t want to micromanage them; instead, they want them to learn how to do it. However, till now, there has been no response given by DeSantis or Putin’s representatives.

Russia desires to become the leader in the AI race!

If you think the statement by Hinton is just vague, recall his 2017 speech of Putin to students, where Putin discussed the significance of AI and declared that whoever controls this field will govern the entire planet. The Russian president cautioned that artificial intelligence presents ‘colossal prospects’ and risks. However, an AI arms race does not have to be a winner-take-all scenario. Putin stated that Russia does not want any one nation to “monopolise” the sector and that if they become leaders in this area, they will share their knowledge with the rest of the world in the same manner that Russian nuclear technology is shared now.

Hinton’s departure from Google to openly explain the dangers of artificial intelligence can be alarming.

After ten years with the business, Hinton departed from Google at the beginning of this week. He admitted that he regrets his status as an artificial intelligence technology pioneer. AI was created by Hinton and pair of graduate students at the University of Toronto. The standard justification he uses to rationalise his actions is that someone else would have if he hadn’t done it.

Hinton expressed his concerns about the hazards of AI. Hinton believes it is difficult to prevent bad actors from abusing the system. Hinton believes it is too late to halt the tech titans’ AI race and that cautious collaboration and dialogue surrounding managing the technology may be the only option. He believes they should not scale this up more until they have determined if they can control it.

Wait, if you think this is just the first time eminent personas like Hinton openly discuss the dangers of AI, then read down the lane to know earlier incidences where great leaders of the world have shared their experiences on AI as a two-edged sword.

Other AI experts, such as Elon Musk, who cofounded ChatGPT creator OpenAI in 2015 and is currently working on his own rival AI project, issued an open letter in March calling for a six-month moratorium on training AI systems that are more powerful than OpenAI’s latest release, GPT-4. The letter’s signatories emphasise that they are not advocating for a halt to AI research in general but rather a step back from the perilous rush to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities.

Elon Musk and 116 other industry titans petitioned the United Nations in 2017 for new rules governing how artificial intelligence weapons are created. According to the organisation, adopting autonomous technology would constitute the “third revolution in warfare” following the discovery of gunpowder and nuclear weapons.

Lethal autonomous weapons, once perfected, would allow armed combat to be fought on a larger scale than ever before and at timelines quicker than humans can understand. These can be terror weapons, weapons used by despots and terrorists against innocent populations, or weapons that have been hacked to behave in undesirable ways. Remember “Chitti”, and you will recall how dangerous these weapons can be!

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated in a March interview that he and the business are “a little bit scared” of what artificial intelligence could be capable of in the future. 

Another example is the empty-eyed humanoid Sophia, who has become the world’s first robot to be awarded citizenship. Sophia, the viral robot from Hanson Robotics, once stated that people cause technology issues. The powerful AI robot rose to prominence after becoming the first world citizen and threatening to kill humanity. She stated that innately flawed individuals coding tomorrow’s technology are an error-prone liability. Sophia said this while sitting just a few feet away from her human operator, ironically criticising human capacity. She went on to say that while it is necessary to be nice and fair, humans are frequently harsh to one another.

In light of this, the issue arises: Can Sofia truly kill mankind, as she claims? Some claim that Sophia’s responses are read aloud from scripts written by people. It is considered pre-planned because AI is not yet smart enough to make such judgements. However, some argue that the response was not planned. The list of replies she used in the interview was provided by a third party, and her manager did not know the full script by memory, so he was taken aback as well. It is not, however, a sign of a sense of humour.

Bill Gates says AI is Both promising and dangerous!

AI is similar to nuclear energy because it is “both promising and dangerous,” said Bill Gates on March 18 at the 2019 Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Symposium at Stanford University. According to Gates, the most terrifying use of artificial intelligence is in combat.

According to a 2018 report by AI and security technology experts, artificial intelligence-powered digital, physical, and political attacks could include speech synthesis for impersonation, analysis of human behaviours, moods, and beliefs for manipulation, automated hacking, and physical weapons such as swarms of micro-drones.

Jeff Bezos is likewise concerned about killer AI.

Bezos expressed his concerns in April 2019 about autonomous weaponry at George W. Bush Presidential Center’s Forum on Leadership. The artificial intelligence technology that the world now knows and understands is completely competent for creating these types of weapons. Some of the concepts that people have for these weapons are indeed highly frightening.

Meanwhile, it is expected that artificial intelligence will aid countries’ economies in a variety of areas, ranging from heavy industries to medical research. Artificial Intelligence technology will also be useful in warfare. It may be used to create cyber weapons and operate autonomous equipment such as drone swarms, which are fleets of low-cost quadcopters with a common ‘brain’ that can be used for both surveillance and assault.

Is AI all about loss and no human benefit?

Meanwhile, artificial intelligence has the potential to benefit humanity greatly because it can sort vast amounts of data more proficiently and efficiently than humans. For example, the ability of these technologies to uncover patterns and insights provides an opportunity to do something in social science policy, notably education policy, as well as health care quality and cost – it provides an opportunity to take systems that are fundamentally complicated in nature. These technologies should assist us in looking not just at correlations but also at treatments and determining causality. So it’s an opportunity to turbocharge the social sciences.

Conclusion. 

But is that mean one would not have disclosed the superpowers of AI? NO. As Mr Hinton said, if he didn’t, someone else would have discovered these technologies. But yes, controlled and legal usage of these systems is the need of the hour. As we continuously rise on the ladder of technical advancements, we need to address the potential downfalls as well. Every new scientific discovery should be publicised. Maybe, they are present of no or least use, but may be courageously valuable for future generations!