Forget superintelligence – we need to tackle ‘stupid’ AI first
Should politicians ensure that AI helps us to colonize galaxy or protect people from the reduction of major technologies? The first seems more fun, but that should not be the priority.
Among the entire Silicon Valley, the Superintelligent AI is considered a rapid inevitability, the CEOs of technology promising that the 2030s will see an era of gold of progress. This attitude has reached Westminster and Washington, with reflection groups telling politicians to be ready to exploit the power of the Entering AI and the Trump Administration supporting the $ 500 billion initiative of OpenAI for the data centers of IA UltraPowerful.
All this seems exciting, but like the great and good dream of superintendent, what we could call “stupid intelligence” causes problems here and now. One of the questions that the AI sector is confronted is whether the assembly of large expanses of the Internet – a necessary part of the AI training – is the violation of copyright.
There are reasonable arguments on both sides. Supporters say that, just as you don’t get New scientistCopyright by simply reading these words, learning AI should be treated in the same way. The detractors, on the other hand, include the Disney and Universal entertainment giants, who continue the firm IA Midjourney for the reproduction of images of everything, from Dark Vader to Minions. Only legislation can settle the issue.
We are heading towards a world in which machines could kill with little human surveillance
The battlefields of Ukraine pose another problem of thorny AI. While Sam Altman of Openai said that he feared that one day could one day kill us, a stupid deadly intelligence is already there. The Russian-Ukraine war leads us to a world in which, very soon, the machines could kill with little human surveillance.
Politicians have not failed entirely to grasp this threat. The United Nations held its first meeting on the regulation of “killers’ robots” in 2014. A decade later, we are not closer to restricting their use. If our leaders are waiting for their time in the hope that a superintelligence will end up solving their problems for them, they are very mistaken.
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