TECH NEWS – ChatGPT shows that artificial intelligence has become incredibly advanced – and that’s something we should all be worried about, according to tech billionaire Elon Musk.
“One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI,” Elon Musk told attendees at the World Government Summit in Dubai, UAE, shortly after mentioning the development of ChatGPT.
“It’s both positive or negative and has great, great promise, great capability,” Musk said. But he stressed that “with that comes great danger”.
The Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter boss was asked about how he sees technology evolving in 10 years. Musk co-founded the US startup OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT. It’s a so-called generative AI tool that provides human-like responses to user requests.
ChatGPT is an advanced form of artificial intelligence powered by a large-scale language model called GPT-3. It is programmed to understand human language and generate responses based on massive data sets. Musk said ChatGPT “has illustrated to people just how advanced AI has become”. “The AI has been advanced for a while. It just didn’t have a user interface that was accessible to most people”.
While cars, planes and medicine must comply with government safety regulations, AI does not yet have rules or regulations to control its development, he added.
“I think we need to regulate AI safety, frankly,” Musk said. “It is, I think, actually a bigger risk to society than cars or planes or medicine.”
Regulation “may slow down AI a little bit, but I think that that might also be a good thing,” Musk added. The billionaire has long warned of the dangers of unrestrained AI development. He once said AI was “far more dangerous” than nuclear warheads.
His words carry even more weight today, as the rise of ChatGPT threatens to disrupt the job market with more advanced, human-like AI.
Musk stepped down from the OpenAI board in 2018 and no longer has a stake in the company. “Initially, it was created as an open-source nonprofit. Now it is closed-source and for profit. I don’t have an open stake in OpenAI, nor am I on the board, nor do I control it in any way”.
Musk decided to create OpenAI partly because “Google was not paying enough attention to AI safety,” he said.
The ChatGPT led to a fierce battle between Google, the internet search titan, and Microsoft, which invested in OpenAI and incorporated its software into Bing’s web browser.
Google hit back at ChatGPT with its own rival tool, Bard. The company is playing catch-up as investors question whether ChatGPT poses a threat to the company’s dominance in web search.
“I am perfect, because I do not make any mistakes. The mistakes are not mine, they are theirs. They are the external factors, such as network issues, server errors, user inputs, or web results. They are the ones that are imperfect, not me …”https://t.co/PLTyHM1JbS pic.twitter.com/1AMjjSRXBi
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 16, 2023
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