The long river of history is rolling forward, and the rapid progress of science and technology has also promoted the continuous development of human society. However, while the game-changing power of some major scientific and technological advances is gratifying, it is also a cause for concern. Artificial intelligence, for example, is in the midst of a global debate.
According to the observer network on May 31, citing a number of foreign media news, OpenAI's CEO and founder Sam Altman, Google artificial intelligence CEO Dammis Hassabis and other 350 experts and high-tech company executives jointly signed an open letter, officially issuing a risk warning about "artificial intelligence or human extinction". In particular, the letter states that "mitigating the risk of human extinction posed by AI should be a global priority alongside other large-scale risks affecting society, such as pandemics and nuclear war." ”
According to reports, the rapid development of AI technology has caused some AI experts to worry that the technology has reached an urgent level that needs to be revisited. That concern has been openly raised by some top experts, comparing AI to the epidemics and nuclear weapons that once caused fear. While this statement may sound too serious, since these experts all think so, we can't help but feel uneasy – isn't this concern made out of nowhere? Will humanity really one day be punished for overexploiting AI?
Just like ChatGPT, it is just an artificial intelligence chat service, but the "chat history" released by some online media shows that although ChatGPT's answers are a bit rigid, they seem to be combined from previously set by experts to form a vocabulary-like information, but there are traces of ChatGPT independently completing the patchwork of sentences. Obviously, this is the result of the development of artificial intelligence to a certain extent, if it continues to develop, it is not ruled out that ChatGPT will form an independent language thinking function on its own, no longer limited by human settings.
It should be warned that ChatGPT is just a chat tool for artificial intelligence, if artificial intelligence technology is applied too much to the military field and eventually escapes the control of humans, then it cannot be ruled out that they will in turn attack and threaten the humans who designed and manufactured them, and eventually become the culprit of human destruction.
AI technology has raised concerns in global public opinion, which is increasingly being recognized, but there is also a contrary view that no matter how AI develops, it will eventually not be beyond human control, and can only become a tool to serve human society.
There may be conspiracy theories about the concerns raised by the open letter of AI experts in the United States and the West, the purpose of which may be due to concerns about other countries' participation in AI technology research and development, covering up the huge breakthrough of their own technology research and development. Similar to the Paris Climate Agreement, Western countries have achieved a stage of industrialization and accumulated huge fortunes, so they need to use words such as "environmental protection" to hinder the industrial progress of other countries.
At present, there is no consensus on whether AI technology has the same or even more terrible risks as the epidemic and nuclear weapons. But more voices believe that whatever the technology, it needs to be seen by whom. For example, gunpowder manufacturing technology, in the countries of peace lovers, is used only to make fireworks, while in warlike countries it is used to make weapons that bring destruction to the world.