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AN ARTIFICIAL intelligence expert has warned that scientists need to slow down in their quest for super AI as they could accidentally create a “God-like” machine.
AI investor Ian Hogarth expressed his concerns in a recent opinion piece in the Financial Times.
The expert warns that we could be a decade to half a century away from creating artificial general intelligence (AGI).
AGI is the next level of AI that’s equally as smart as an average human and can learn just like how we learn.
Hogarth explained: “A three-letter acronym doesn’t capture the enormity of what AGI would represent, so I will refer to it as what is: God-like AI.
“A superintelligent computer that learns and develops autonomously, that understands its environment without the need for supervision, and that can transform the world around it.”
The AI investor went on to describe how a machine learning researcher told him how humans are on the brink of developing AGI.
The main issue a lot of experts are worried about is that we don’t know much about AGI or how we would control it.
Hogarth wrote: “If you think we could be close to something potentially so dangerous,’ I said to the researcher, ‘shouldn’t you warn people about what’s happening?
“He was clearly grappling with the responsibility he faced but, like many in the field, seemed pulled along by the rapidity of progress.”
