Calls to stop the development of the iartificial intelligence (AI) they won’t “solve the challenges” ahead, the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates.
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The technologist-turned-philanthropist said it would be better to focus on how to best use developments in IAgiven that it was difficult to understand how a global pause could work.
His comments follow a letter published last week and co-signed by Elon Musk and more than 1,000 artificial intelligence experts, which called for an urgent pause on the development of “more powerful” systems than those supported by Microsoft.
OpenAI’s new GPT-4, which can hold human-like conversation, compose songs, and summarize long documents.
Experts, including the co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, they said in the letter that it is necessary to assess the potential risks and benefits to society.
“I don’t think asking a particular group to take a break solves the challenges (…) Clearly there are huge benefits to these things, what we need to do is identify the difficult areas,” he said. Gates on Monday.
Microsoft has sought to outperform its peers through multi-billion dollar investments in the owner of ChatGPT, OpenAI. While he currently focuses full-time on Bill and Melinda Gates’ philanthropic foundation, Gates has been a supporter optimistic about AI and described it as revolutionary such as the Internet or mobile phones.
In a blog titled “The AI era has begun”, which was posted and dated March 21, the day before the open letter, said he believes AI should be used to help reduce some of the world’s worst inequalities.
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He also said in the interview that the details of any pause would be complicated to enforce.
“I really don’t understand who is saying it could stop, and if all the countries in the world would agree to stop, and why stop,” he said. “But there are many different opinions in this area.”
