Cai Lian News, April 17 (Editor Bian Chun) As the artificial intelligence (AI) race between technology giants heats up, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who previously called for a pause in the development of more powerful AI systems, has also joined the AI melee, but in his view, unfortunately, the world is not ready for the impact of artificial intelligence.
AI software developer Mckay Wrigley tweeted on Saturday: "If a year ago you said we would have GPT-4 AI models, you would have been called a 'madman'. Now think about it, in another year, 5 or 10 years, it's going to hit humanity like an asteroid. ”
Musk agrees with Wrigley's statement. Responding to Wrigley's tweet on Sunday, he said: "I thought this was going to happen long before GPT-1, which is why I've been trying to warn the public for years." I used the opportunity of my only one-on-one meeting with Oba President Ma to encourage AI regulation rather than promote Tesla or SpaceX. ”
In February 2015, then-U.S. President Barack Obama had dinner with Musk in San Francisco.
Musk also tweeted last week about Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer laying the groundwork for congressional regulation of AI, saying, "The good news is that AI regulation will be much more important than it seems today." ”
Musk also expressed his concern about the latest wave of artificial intelligence in an interview with the media a few days ago, saying that this technology has the potential to destroy civilization.
"Artificial intelligence, more dangerous than poor aircraft design or production maintenance or poor car production, because it has the potential — however small one thinks it is, but it's not trivial — it has the potential to destroy civilization." He said.
Musk has long argued that oversight of AI is necessary, describing the technology as "potentially more dangerous than nuclear weapons." "We need some kind of regulator or agency that oversees the development of AI to make sure it's operating in the public interest," he told Tesla investors last month.
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According to media reports, Musk has established an artificial intelligence (AI) company called X.AI in Nevada, USA, aiming to compete with Open AI, the development company of the chatbot ChatGPT. Not only that, Musk is also promoting a generative artificial intelligence project on Twitter, and has purchased tens of thousands of GPUs (graphics processing units) for this.
Notably, just a few weeks ago, Musk also called for a moratorium on the development of AI tools more advanced than GPT-4 for at least six months. Proponents of the moratorium argue that it will give the industry time to design and develop safety standards for it that avoid potential hazards.
Musk joined thousands of technical experts in signing an open letter, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. So far, the letter has been signed by more than 26,000 people.
For Musk's "inconsistency between words and deeds", the outside world has said, "Don't look at what he says, look at how he does."
But perhaps Musk's words and actions are not contradictory. It's true that he fears that AI will spiral out of control too quickly in the absence of regulation, and it's also true that he doesn't want to fall behind in this AI feast.
In fact, Musk is not on the opposite side of AI, he is an advocate of the mission of "promoting and developing friendly AI". His Tesla electric cars and recyclable rockets have made extensive use of AI technology, and he was even one of the founders of OpenAI, only to quit the company in 2018.
(Cai Lian News Agency Bian Chun)