Source: MSN
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes developers and engineers are nearing the arrival of the singularity, which is the point when artificial intelligence models surpass human intelligence and develop into self-perpetuating systems.
“We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started,” Altman opined in a blog post. “Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.”
The post provides some insight into the possible, ultimate end game of AI. The CEO of the Microsoft-backed (NASDAQ: MSFT) OpenAI, the creator of the popular ChatGPT, envisions a world, as near as the 2030s, where work, society and culture will be dramatically different.
“2025 has seen the arrival of agents that can do real cognitive work; writing computer code will never be the same,” Altman said. “2026 will likely see the arrival of systems that can figure out novel insights. 2027 may see the arrival of robots that can do tasks in the real world … the 2030s are likely going to be wildly different from any time that has come before. We do not know how far beyond human-level intelligence we can go, but we are about to find out.”
Altman foresees a time in the ever-approaching, not too distant future when AI systems operate with little to no intervention to build better, more powerful versions of themselves.
Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, Science and Technology, Technology
These AI developments are of course very interesting and may have a lot of positive effects. However, AI ‘gives out’ what humans ‘put in’. And among humans unfortunately there are some big crooks, criminals, (politicians?), who may ‘feed’ AI with dangerous rubbish. Am I wrong to worry a bit?