Elon Musk believes that the world is woefully unprepared for the impact of artificial intelligence. On Sunday, it is Agreed that the technology will hit people “like an asteroid”, and he revealed that he used his one-on-one meeting with President Barack Obama to push for regulation of AI.
The CEO of Twitter and Tesla made the comments in response to a tweet from artificial intelligence software developer Mckay Wrigley, who books Saturday: “It amazes me that people can’t apply the exponential growth of AI capabilities. You would have been called *crazy* a year ago if you said we had GPT-4 level AI right now. Now think about another year. 5 years? 10 years? It’ll hit them like an asteroid.”
Musk replied, “I saw it happen long before GPT-1, which is why I tried to warn the public for years. The only meeting I had with Obama as president I didn’t use to promote Tesla or SpaceX, but to encourage AI regulation.” Obama was Musk dinner In February 2015 in San Francisco.
This week, Musk responded to news about Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Lay the foundation Congress to regulate artificial intelligence.
“Good news! The regulation of artificial intelligence will be much more important than it may seem today,” Musk said chirp.
According to the financial timesMusk is developing plans to launch an AI startup, dubbed X.AI, to compete against Microsoft-backed OpenAI, which makes generative AI tools, including AI ChatGPT and GPT-4 chatbots and the DALL-E 2 image generator.
Musk is also said to work on Twitter artificial intelligence project.
A few weeks ago, Musk called a six-month pause in developing more advanced AI tools than GPT-4, the successor to ChatGPT. He was joined in signing an open letter by hundreds of technology experts, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. The letter warned of widespread misinformation and mass job automation.
The power of AI systems to automate some white-collar jobs is beyond doubt. A professor at Wharton recently conducted an experiment to see what AI tools could do on a business project in 30 minutes and described the results as “miraculous.” Meanwhile, some remote workers seem to be taking advantage of productivity-enhancing AI tools to take on multiple full-time jobs, with employers none the wiser. But fears that artificial intelligence will replace many jobs in the long run are growing.
Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit organization, but parted ways with it after a power struggle with CEO Sam Altman over its control and direction. according to the Wall Street Journal.
he chirp On February 17, OpenAI was created as an open-source non-profit organization “to act as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed-source, profit-maximizing company that is effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all.”
Altman himself has repeatedly warned about the dangers of artificial intelligence. Last month in an interview with ABC, he said that other AI developers working on ChatGPT-like tools wouldn’t put the kind of security limits his company does — and time is ticking.
Musk has long believed that oversight of artificial intelligence is necessary, having described the technology as having “potential More dangerous than nuclear weapons. “
“We need some kind of, like, regulatory authority or something that will oversee the development of artificial intelligence,” he told Tesla investors last month. “Make sure it works in the public interest.”