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Elon Musk wants to push technology to its limits, from space travel to self-driving cars, but he draws the line at artificial intelligence.
The billionaire first shared his aversion to AI in 2014, calling it humanity’s “greatest existential threat” and likening it to “summoning the demon.”
Musk also revealed at the time that he invested in AI companies not to make money, but to keep an eye on the technology in case it gets out of hand.
His biggest fear is that in the wrong hands, if AI becomes advanced, it could overtake humans and spell the end of humanity, known as singularity.
That concern is shared by many brilliant minds, including the late Stephen Hawking, who shared it BBC in 2014: ‘The development of full artificial intelligence could mean the end of the human race.
“It would take off on its own and redesign itself faster and faster.”
AI Despite his fear of AI, Musk invested in San Francisco-based AI group Vicarious, DeepMind, which has since been acquired by Google and OpenAI, creating the popular ChatGPT program that has taken the world by storm in recent months .
During a 2016 interview, Musk noted that he and the OpenAI founded 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 attempted to take over the startup.
His request was denied, forcing him to leave OpenAI and move on to his other projects.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT in November, which became an instant global success.
The chatbot is a large language model trained on a huge amount of text data, which allows it 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.
And while Altman basks in his glory, Musk attacks ChatGPT from all sides.
He says the AI is “awake” and deviating from OpenAI’s original non-profit mission.
“OpenAI was created as an open source (that’s why I called it ‘Open’ AI), non-profit company to counterbalance Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft, tweeted Musk in February.
While it seems like OpenAI is on Musk’s target list, the billionaire is still worried about AI reaching singularity.
The word “singularity” is making waves around the world as artificial intelligence advances in ways only seen in science fiction – but what does it actually mean?
In simple terms, singularity describes a hypothetical future where technology surpasses human intelligence and changes the path of our evolution.
Experts have said that once AI reaches this point, it will be able to innovate much faster than humans.
There are two ways progress can proceed, with the first leading to humans and machines working together to create a world better suited to humanity.
For example, people could scan their consciousness and store it in a computer where they will live forever.
The second scenario is that AI becomes more powerful than humans, takes control and enslaves humans – but if this is true, it is way off in the distant future.
Researchers are now looking for signs that AI is reaching singularity, such as the technology’s ability to translate speech with the accuracy of a human and complete tasks faster.
Former Google engineer Ray Kurzweil predicts singularity will be reached in 2045.
He has made 147 predictions about technological progress since the early 1990s and 86 percent were right.