Google boss fearful of AI as company’s tech goes rogue and ‘teaches itself’

Posted on : 04/18/2023
Google boss fearful of AI as company’s tech goes rogue and ‘teaches itself’
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Google's boss says he is being “kept up at night” with worry about the dangers of artificial intelligence.

Sundar Pichai admitted he doesn’t even “fully understand” Google’s own AI after it taught itself how to speak a foreign language without training.

It has been compared to the rise of rogue killer robots which go to war with humankind in 1984 movie The Terminator.

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And it comes after tech bosses including Twitter owner Elon Musk called for a halt to AI’s spread for the protection of humanity.

Mr Pichai, 50, said: “It can be very harmful if deployed wrongly and we don’t have all the answers there yet and the technology is moving fast.

“We have some ideas, and our ability to understand this gets better over time. But that’s where the state of the art is.”

He admitted that “kinks” in Google’s chatbot program Bard – such as how it can teach itself skills its programmers did not predict – are still being worked out.

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Prof Stuart Russell, from the University of California, Berkeley, said: “In the long run, taking sensible precautions is a small price to pay to mitigate these risks.”

It comes as Arram Sabeti, a San Francisco-based AI investor and company CEO, said he is "scared" of the technology because it is "more dangerous to humanity than nuclear weapons".

"I’m scared of AGI. It's confusing how people can be so dismissive of the risks.

"I’m an investor in two AGI companies and friends with dozens of researchers working at DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Brain. Almost all of them are worried," he wrote on Twitter.

He likened its threat to that of nuclear power, and quoted Elon Musk's 2018 warning, which said: "With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. Mark my words — A.I. is far more dangerous than nukes."

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