{"id":3367,"date":"2024-12-06T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T09:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2024-12-06T09:47:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T09:47:18","slug":"as-the-most-dazzling-star-in-the-field-of-artificial-intelligence-sam-ultraman-certainly-hopes-that-someone-can-find-a-way-not-to-destroy-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/blogs\/archives\/3367","title":{"rendered":"As the most dazzling star in the field of artificial intelligence, Sam Ultraman certainly hopes that someone can find a way not to destroy humanity."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sam Altman, known as the PT Barnum of artificial intelligence, has a message for those who care about the technology he\u2019s spent his life promoting: Don\u2019t worry, the tech geeks are working on it.<br>Let\u2019s back up a bit.<br>Altman, the 39-year-old venture capitalist and CEO of OpenAI, spoke with journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times Dealbook Summit on Wednesday. As gentle but affable as ever, Altman almost made you forget he\u2019s a billionaire doomsayer who has also repeatedly warned about the risks of artificial intelligence. At one point, Sorkin asked, \u201cDo you believe that governments or anyone else can figure out how to avoid\u201d the existential threat posed by superintelligent<strong>&nbsp;AI&nbsp;<\/strong>systems?<br>Cue the shy boy\u2019s deflection.<br>\u201cI\u2019m sure the researchers will figure out how to avoid that,\u201d Altman replied. \u201cI think the smartest people in the world will work on a range of technical problems. You know, I\u2019m a little overly optimistic by nature, but I think they\u2019ll figure it out.\u201d<br>He went on to suggest that perhaps the&nbsp;<strong>AI<\/strong>&nbsp;\u200b\u200bitself is so smart that it will figure out how to control itself, but didn\u2019t elaborate.<br>\u201cWe have this magic\u2014\u201d Altman says, but then corrects himself, \u201cNot magic. We have this incredible science called deep learning that can help us solve these very hard problems.\u201d<br>Ah, yes. ExxonMobil will solve the climate crisis\u2026<br>Look, it\u2019s hard not to be drawn to Altman, who did not respond to requests for comment. He keeps his cool, knowing that even if his technology disrupts the global economy, he\u2019ll be safe in his bunker off the coast of California. (\u201cI have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, IDF gas masks, and a big piece of land in Big Sur that I can fly to,\u201d he said.) But for the rest of us, it would be nice to hear Altman or any of his fellow&nbsp;<strong>AI&nbsp;<\/strong>boosters explain what they mean when they say \u201cwe\u2019ll figure it out.\u201d<br>Even AI researchers admit they still don\u2019t understand exactly how the technology works. A report commissioned by the U.S. State Department called&nbsp;<strong>AI&nbsp;<\/strong>systems essentially black boxes that pose an \u201cextinction-level threat\u201d to humanity.<br>Even if researchers can sort out the technical issues and solve what they call the \u201ccoordination problem\u201d \u2014 making sure AI models don\u2019t become monster robots that destroy the world \u2014 Altman acknowledged that there will still be problems that some people or some governments will have to solve.<br>At the Dealbook Summit, Altman again put the onus on regulating the technology on some imaginary international organization made up of rational adults who don\u2019t want to kill each other. He told Sorkin, even if \u201ceven if we can make this [superintelligence model] technically safe, which I think we will find a way to do, we have to have faith in our governments\u2026there has to be global coordination\u2026I think we\u2019ll rise to the challenge, but it seems challenging.\u201d<br>There are a lot of assumptions in this, and it reflects a myopic understanding of how policymaking and global coordination actually work: which is to say, slowly, inefficiently, and often not at all.<br>This kind of naivety must be instilled in the 1% elite in Silicon Valley, who are keen to stuff AI into every device we use, despite the technology\u2019s flaws. That\u2019s not to say it\u2019s not useful! AI is being used to do all sorts of cool things, like helping people with disabilities or the elderly, as my colleague Clare Duffy has reported. Some<strong>&nbsp;AI&nbsp;<\/strong>models are doing some exciting things with biochemistry (which is frankly beyond my comprehension, but I trust the honest scientists who won the Nobel Prize for this technology earlier this year).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.batteriesfast.co.uk\/plc-battery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Laptop Battery Online Shop- Replacement Laptop Battery, Cell phone Battery, Tablet Battery, Power Tools Battery Wholesale and Retailer in United Kingdom. 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