Eric Schmidt Warns: Stop AI Development Once Self-Improvement Begins

It’s no surprise that the world of AI comes with its fair share of privacy and safety issues.

The chances of Generative AI putting an end to humanity continue to be a riddle that not many experts have an answer to. However as per one AI safety researcher and the head of Cyber Security Labs at the University of Louisville, the famous AGI benchmark isn’t tied to a particular timeframe.

He narrowed this down to anyone and everyone who has the right amount of funds to make purchases that are sufficient to power data centers. So as you can see, in essence, this was more limited to achievements for people with financial power.

Today, the head of OpenAI predicts AGI can happen in a few years as it will encompass strong AI systems that go beyond the human mind’s capabilities through different tasks. So Sam Altman is rooting for this breakthrough thanks to current hardware but Google’s former CEO has a different school of thought.

Eric Schmidt feels it’s time the world should think about pulling the plug on the development of AI after it starts to improve on its own. While taking part in a shocking new interview with the ABC, the leading executive shared more on how the system can be better on its own. This is the point when unplugging should be done, he shared.

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It’s not going to be easy, he shared but a very difficult task to ensure the balance remains maintained. Altman did share a while back that superintelligence is a thousand years away from coming into play. But some feel otherwise and that’s why according to them this AGI benchmark is threatening.

The makers of ChatGPT could be close to handling all that comes with the whole AI system that goes beyond human cognitive abilities. Altman also shared more on this front including how the AI system is beyond most people’s understanding. But it’s not going to come with this grand AGI moment, he adds. It’s coming and it will happen silently without too many people noticing at all.

Still, his predictions entail a long continuation related to development between AGI and superintelligence AI agents as well as AI systems that do better than humans in most areas next year and even after that.



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