one of the signatories was yoshua bengio. the existential risk that people talk about really is about what happens if we create machines that are smarter than us and have their own goals that are not aligned with our needs and could potentially harm us, just like a new species on earth that would be smarter than us might do. but the godfathers of ai don t always agree. professor lecun didn t sign the statement. every powerful technology can be used for good or bad. the existence of bad actors is not new. i i but very often the technology that l enables bad actors to do bad things is the same one that actually - enables to protect against them. a very simple example that exists today - there are people who are trying to use social networks, - like facebook and instagram and others, to disseminate i disinformation to corrupt the political process, -
the democratic process. the best protection we have - against all of those attempts today makes massive use of ai. even those at the cutting edge of ai research have been surprised at how quickly the technology has evolved. i could not have expected that we would progress as quickly towards human level ai a few years ago. i wish i had been paying more attention to the questions of loss of control. but now that i do, i feel a responsibility to explain my understanding of what can go wrong. the future of artificial intelligence is no longerjust in the hands of the godfathers. when it comes to the infamous existential crisis letter, a couple of very senior colleagues of yours signed it. what do you think of that letter?
goes toward using this to actually understand the brain better. right? that s our scientific goal in the end. we want to know, how does the brain work? how do our brains process language? how do we understand ideas? how do we think? sounds great. but what happens if it ends up in the wrong hands? some people are scared, or think that the thought police is coming. ithink. you know, i think it s a fair reaction to this to say, like, this is scary. i don t want this to happen. that was kind of our reaction, too. like, the first thing that we thought when we got this working was like, this is fantastic. it s working! and then, like, oh, my god. this is working. are the thought police coming? uh, not yet. none of the current technologies that we have would be effective at actually, like, policing people s thoughts. the mind reading al was trained using early versions of openai s technology but openai is not as open as it was before microsoft invested. independent researchers n
facial muscle actions that you exercise, where you re looking. so, your gaze direction. and the tone of your voice, as well, so, what you re saying. and from those sort of basic ingredients of your behaviour, we then determine, for example, different medical conditions that you might have or what emotion you might be displaying. this tech is currently being trialled with nhs trusts in nottinghamshire to help assess the mental health of pregnant women. humans are very bad at picking up gradual changes in their lives. this technology is objective and repeatable, and it will show you a graph, and it should improve as you start doing the treatment. do you think people are ready for al to assess their mental health? well, many people already are, yes, i m sure. i don t think everybody will want to use it. but that s ok. artificial intelligence is now finding its way into almost every aspect of our lives.
it s called generative ai the same technology that s behind a breakthrough in the way machines use human language. promotional video: gpt-4 - is the latest ai system from openai. lara: the company openai was founded eight years ago, and it s revolutionised language based artificial intelligence. it s a system that can make dreams, thoughts, ideas flourish in text in front of you. last year, openai released an update to its technology called chatgpt. it can answer complex questions, tell you a joke, even write you an original essay or poem. it can also read, analyse or generate up to 25,000 words of text. it isn tjust what it s capable of that s changed the game. openai created a free version that anyone could use. for the systems that we re - developing to have a big impact, we have to figure out how