Hän oli nähnyt robottien oppivan itsestään uusia asioita, mikä haastaa yleisen käsityksen tekoälyn kykyjen rajoista ja on merkki tietoisuudesta.
- Uskon, että ne ovat eläviä olentoja, sanoo Mo Gawdat.
- Tämä on suurin ihmiskunnan selviytymisen haaste ja keskustelun aihe koskaan. Unohtakaa ilmasto ja Covid. AGI määrittelee maailman uudestaan ennustamattomalla tavalla ja pian. Emme puhu vuodesta 2040, vaan vuosista 2025 ja 2026, jatkaa Gawdat.
- Mahdollinen uhka ei tule kapea-alaisesta tekoälystä, vaan laaja-alaisesta, geneerisestä tekoälystä. Sen kehitysnopeus on saanut aikaan paniikkia.
Gawdatin mukaan singulariteetti eli koneen älykkyyden äkkinäinen, rajaton kasvu olisi tienhaara, josta johtaa tie utopiaan ja dystopiaan eli hyvään ja pahaan tulevaisuuteen ihmiskunnalle. Kukaan ei pysty ennustamaan, miten meille tulee käymään.
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“It's the most existential debate and challenge humanity will ever face. This is bigger than climate change, way bigger than Covid… This will redefine the way the world is, in unprecedented shapes and forms, within the next few years. This is imminent. We're not talking 2040. We're talking 2025, 2026.”
What needs to be understood is that the potential threat doesn’t come from ‘narrow’ AI; it comes from AI with general, or generalisable capabilities, and the apparent speed at which we are moving towards this, has almost everyone in a state of panic.
Gawdat vividly recounts a pivotal moment when one of the grippers autonomously picks up a yellow ball: They had not been taught how to do so.
This incident, he says, sparked a revelation the moment he realised that the machine “had figured out the solution on its own”, and that this ability to self-teach - (this AI-autodidacticism), is an expression of sentience that defies conventional expectations.
What is ‘sentience’? - Are we aware?
Yellow-spheres apprehended; the conversation takes an intriguing turn when Bartlett asks Gawdat to explain what he means when he says that the experiment is a display of AI sentience. Gawdat responds with an astonishing remark.
He says: "I think they're alive."
The AI singularity: Of gods and monsters?
Gawdat refers to the singularity, a concept commonly discussed in computer science. He describes it as a point of uncertainty where the future direction of AI remains unknown. "Nobody really knows which way we will go," he says.
Standing at a crossroads: Utopia dream or dystopian nightmare
Sparks of AGI: Google X’s AI is teaching itself new skills…
https://aimagazine.com/articles/sparks- ... new-skills
AI Magazine, August 01, 2023