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From space travel to self-driving cars, Elon Musk wants to push technology to its absolute limits, but he’s setting the limit on artificial intelligence.
The billionaire first expressed his distaste for artificial intelligence in 2014, calling it “the greatest existential threat to humanity” and likening it to “summoning the devil.”
At the time, Musk also revealed that he was investing in AI companies not to make money but to monitor the technology in case it got out of control.
His main fear is that in the wrong hands, if AI becomes advanced, it could overtake humans and bring about the end of humanity, known as the Singularity.
This concern is shared by many brilliant minds, including the late Stephen Hawking, who told… BBC In 2014: “The development of full artificial intelligence could mean the end of the human race.”
“It will go off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate.”
Despite his fear of AI, Musk has invested in San Francisco-based AI group Vicarious, DeepMind, which has since been acquired by Google, and OpenAI, creating the popular ChatGPT software that has taken the world by storm in recent months.
During a 2016 interview, Musk noted that he and OpenAI created the company to “democratize AI technology to make it widely available.”
Musk founded OpenAI with Sam Altman, the company’s CEO, but in 2018 the billionaire tried to take control of the startup.
His application was rejected, forcing him to leave OpenAI and move forward with his other projects.
In November, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, which became an instant hit around the world.
The chatbot uses a “big language model” to train itself by combing through a massive amount of text data so that it can learn to generate eerily human-like text in response to a given prompt.
ChatGPT is used to write research papers, books, news articles, emails, and more.
But while Altman is basking in his glory, Musk is attacking ChatGPT.
He says AI is “woke” and deviates from OpenAI’s original nonprofit mission.
“OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why it’s called ‘Open’ AI), a non-profit company to act as a counterweight to Google, but now it’s a closed-source, profit-maximizing company effectively controlled by Microsoft,” Musk tweeted. In February.
The Singularity is making waves around the world as artificial intelligence advances in ways we only see in science fiction – but what does it mean in reality?
In simple terms, it describes a hypothetical future in which technology surpasses human intelligence and changes the course of our evolution.
Experts said that once artificial intelligence reaches this point, it will be able to innovate much faster than humans.
There are two ways progress can occur, the first of which leads to humans and machines working together to create a world more suitable for humanity.
For example, humans could scan their consciousness and store it in a computer in which they would live forever.
The second scenario is for AI to become more powerful than humans, controlling humans and making them its slaves – but if this is true, it is far off in the distant future.
Researchers are now looking for signs that artificial intelligence has reached the singularity stage, such as the technology’s ability to translate speech with human accuracy and perform tasks faster.
Former Google engineer Ray Kurzweil predicts that it will be reached by 2045.
He has made 147 predictions about technological progress since the early 1990s — and 86 percent of them were correct.
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