Artificial intelligence (AI) has become more and more human-like, although it is currently one of the hottest technologies that can help our science advance rapidly, increase production efficiency, improve health care, and so on. However, as the use of AI technology in our working lives becomes more and more extensive, some people are beginning to worry about whether artificial intelligence will bring some negative effects and even control humans.
Recently, an important message has been transmitted in the field of AI, including Sam Altman, the "father of conversational AIChatGPT", and more than 300 AI experts have signed a joint letter.
The letter has only one statement: reducing the risk of AI extinction should be a global priority, along with other society-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war.
Artificial intelligence has been widely used in various fields, such as finance, medical care, education, etc. Thanks to the fact that it can absorb huge amounts of information in a short period of time and learn and use it, the speed of development of AI has exceeded everyone's imagination.
In the past, AI relied mainly on enforcement rules and expert knowledge, required manual design and manual verification, and often struggled to cope with what happened in various realities in the real world. Many people have used old-fashioned speech recognition, either because of the wrong recognition of speech speed problems, or because of accent and tone problems can not recognize the meaning they really want to express. More often than not, it's a retelling of what we've said, and that's it.
Today's AI primarily uses technologies such as deep learning and natural language processing, which allow AI to better learn and deduce from data, going beyond the basic framework to optimize all the instructions given to it. People nowadays can talk to conversational AI and make it write a song in seconds, even making people wonder if there is a real person hidden behind it.
These changes are also happening in every aspect of our lives, from navigating to autonomous driving, recognizing images to automatically generating pictures, answering questions, and proactively asking questions, solving problems, and giving complete solutions. And all of these changes were made in these two years.
The rapid development of technology makes us have to worry, will AI really get out of control?
More and more people now rely heavily on the convenience that AI brings, trusting AI too much to properly check the quality and accuracy of AI results. This can lead to errors or biases in the AI system, which in turn are automatically amplified in the self-learning deep learning, and when people do not correct it, the AI that absorbs the wrong knowledge will not consider itself out of control at all.
It is true that the development of AI is rapid and powerful, and productivity will inevitably surpass that of humans, but it is still only people's right-hand man to solve those tedious and boring jobs. AI out of control is not terrible, only when people stop using it as a tool, completely lose the ability to think independently, and it begins to change our lifestyles and values, so that it is controlled by artificial intelligence.