Emergency ＂stop＂! Thousands of people jointly called for： AI is developing too fast, causing concern？
On March 14th, OpenAI, an American research and development company, officially released GPT-4, the latest product of artificial intelligence language model, which shocked the whole world. Two weeks later, an open letter signed by SpaceX CEO Musk and more than 1,000 industry executives and experts was posted online. They called for suspending the development of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months, and warned that the development of artificial intelligence "poses potential risks to society and mankind".
Why does the development of GPT-4 cause such concern?
The rapid development of AI has caused concern about the potential risks to society and human beings.
The general concern expressed in this open letter is that AI is developing too fast, relevant regulations and laws have not kept up, and even inventors lack effective control means.
Anil Seth, British neuroscientist: I think what really shocked me was that the whole cycle of machine learning and artificial intelligence from development to release seemed very fast.
The Japanese Prime Minister answered the question of "ChatGPT" at the cabinet meeting for the first time.
On 29th, Japanese Prime Minister kishida fumio answered questions generated by OpenAI’s chatbot program "ChatGPT" at the Cabinet Committee meeting of the House of Representatives. Subsequently, ChatGPT predicted kishida fumio’s answer, and showed it with a display board after the defense, and the direction of the answer was basically the same.
Japanese Prime Minister kishida fumio: My answer listed the names of specific parties such as the National Governors’ Association and the Mayors’ Association in Japan, which better reflected the actual situation.
AI analog sound raises so-called "deep forgery" concerns
In fact, this is only the basic application of ChatGPT. The American media reporter showed the process of using AI to simulate his voice to talk to his father, and this process also caused the so-called "deep forgery" concern.
Host of CNN.
It looks like a fun game, but AI technology can even be used to achieve the so-called "deep forgery", which is not fun. Because we can copy anyone’s appearance and generate digital masks through this technology.
The GPT-4′ s ability to emerge from the world is too strong, which has sparked a global debate.
GPT-4 is the fourth generation language model released by American R&D company OpenAI for ChatGPT, and its emergence is considered as "the future has come" by scientific and technological circles, which has triggered a global hot discussion. It can write articles, create web pages, reason logically, and create almost any content. In addition, it can take exams, and it scored more than 90% in the American bar exam.
British Sky reporter tom clarke: Hi, GPT-4, do you have a sense of autonomy?
GPT-4
As a new language model, I don’t have consciousness, I don’t have self-consciousness, subjective emotion or subjective experience, and my reaction comes from the written pattern in the text data I have trained.
In fact, since the birth of ChatGPT, how to control risks has always been the focus of discussion.
ABC reporter
On the one hand, AI has great potential and can be used to do useful things. On the other hand, there are a lot of unknown situations that may bring very bad consequences to society. How confident are you that what you build will not lead to such a result?
Sam altman, CEO of OpenAI, USA: We will adjust.
ABC reporter: Do you adjust when negative things happen?
Sam altman, CEO of OpenAI, USA
The current system is still weak, so we should release this system now, and try our best to understand the situation while the risk is still small. I think this can avoid more dangerous situations.
However, there are also views against stopping R&D. It is foreseeable that how humans and AI coexist and advance together will become the focus of global attention in the future.
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