Elon Musk wants to push technology to its absolute limits, from space travel to self-driving cars — but he’s drawing the line toward artificial intelligence.
The billionaire first shared his distaste for AI in 2014, calling it “the greatest existential threat to humanity” and comparing it to “summoning the devil.”
At the time, Musk also revealed that he was investing in AI companies not to make money but to monitor the technology in case it got out of hand.
His main fear is that in the wrong hands, if the AI becomes advanced, it could overtake humans and spell the end of humanity, which is known as the singularity.
This concern is shared by many brilliant minds, including the late Stephen Hawking, who told BBC In 2014: “The development of full artificial intelligence could mean the end of the human race.
“It will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate.”
Despite his fear of AI, San Francisco-based Vicarious AI group, Musk invested in DeepMind, which has since been acquired by Google and OpenAI, creating the popular ChatGPT software that has revolutionized the world in recent months.
During a 2016 interview, Musk noted that he and OpenAI created 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 tried to take control of the startup.
His application was denied, forcing him to leave OpenAI and move forward with his other projects.
In November, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, which became an instant hit worldwide.
The chatbot uses a “big language model” to train itself by sifting through a massive amount of text data so that it can learn 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.
But while Altman basks in his glory, ChatGPT’s catcher attacks.
He says AI has “woke up” and is deviating from the nonprofit OpenAI’s original mission.
OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I called it “Open” AI) nonprofit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it is a closed source, maximum profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft, Musk tweeted in February. .
The singularity is making waves across the world as artificial intelligence advances in ways only seen in science fiction – but what does that mean in reality?
In simple terms, it describes a hypothetical future where technology will surpass human intelligence and change the course of our evolution.
Experts said that once AI reaches this point, it will be able to innovate much faster than humans.
There are two ways this progress could come about, the first being that it leads to humans and machines working together to create a world more suitable for humanity.
For example, humans can scan their consciousness and store it in a computer in which they will live forever.
The second scenario is that AI becomes more powerful than humans, taking over humans and making them his slaves – but if this is true, it’s far in the future.
Researchers are now looking for signs of AI reaching The Singularity, such as the technology’s ability to translate speech with human accuracy and perform tasks faster.
Former Google engineer Ray Kurzweil expects it to be reached by 2045.
He’s made 147 predictions about technological progress since the early 1990s — and 86 percent of them were correct.
