Concerns about artificial intelligence

The rapid development of research on artificial intelligence in recent times has raised a real concern in the scientific world about the inability to control.

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In an interview on Reddit recently, the Microsoft founder, the famous billionaire Bill Gates, said he belonged to the " group of people worried about artificial intelligence ".

Once people develop the perfect artificial intelligence, it will develop itself, completing itself faster each time. At that time, we humans, due to the limitations of slow biological evolution, can be competitive and outmatched

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In the ' Ask me anything ' section, the American billionaire explained: ' At first, machines made us a lot of things and were not too smart. That is very positive if we manage it. But in the coming decades, artificial intelligence will be stronger to become a concern for us. I agree with Elon Musk and many others on this issue and I do not understand those who are not worried about this . '

According to Numerama, Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal, and the founder of technology businesses like SpaceX, Tesla Motors and SolarCity, once announced via Twitter in August 2014 that he 'is very concerned about artificial intelligence because it can be more dangerous than an atomic bomb '.

Therefore, a famous entrepreneur in technology has contributed 10 million USD to Future of Life Institute - a US nonprofit organization that warns about technological advances and their impact on human.

In a conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) in October 2014, Elon Musk once again compared the artificial intelligence to the " dangerous call of the soul ".

He explained: 'If I have to determine which is the main existential threat to mankind, it is artificial intelligence '.

As a coincidence, many scientists have recently spoken out about the story of artificial intelligence research and its implications.

In an interview on the BBC in December 2014, genius physicist Stephen Hawking once predicted pessimistically that 'the development of artificial intelligence can absolutely be the end of humanity'. .

Bill Gates play two sides?

Bill Gates is not so pessimistic because in the next decade, he still believes in the development of robot and human technology that will make great progress in areas such as ' seeing, understanding language and translating itself'. dynamic '.

He explained: ' Once computers - robots reach the ability to see and move easily, they will be used more .'

According to the French newspaper Les Echos, it seems that the constant concern of scientists and businessmen is' aiming at the giant Google because the group is taking turns in companies specializing in artificial intelligence. . In fact, many big tech companies in the US such as Microsoft, IBM, Google . have been investing in artificial intelligence.

It is also possible that the open letter of Future of Life Institute on artificial intelligence and its place in society was quickly signed by scientists.

This figure has so far more than 1,500 signatures of scientists and engineers, in addition to names like Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Eric Horvitz - Microsoft's research director, Yann LeCun - research director. rescuing Facebook's artificial intelligence .

The letter highlights the exciting, useful directions of research on ongoing artificial intelligence, but also calls on the community to quickly establish a ' code of ethics ' to guide research. .

The problem is also making people puzzled that Bill Gates voiced warnings but he himself, also in response to readers on Reddit, confirmed he is cooperating with Microsoft in a project called ' Personal agent ' It is understood that it is an ' artificial assistant ', able to 'remember everything to help you find old information and help you decide which information to consider most.'

He explained more carefully: 'The story you can search for and select applications and each of those applications will find ways to inform you what is new is not necessarily an effective model. The artificial assistant (our) helps you overcome that limit . '

So at some point, Bill Gates still believes in artificial intelligence and he revealed that if Microsoft did not work well then he had to choose to do . researcher on artificial intelligence. !