Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming years – but that’s a good thing, says US-Brazil researcher Ben Goertzel, a leading AI guru.
Mathematician, cognitive scientist and renowned robot-maker Goertzel, 56, is the founder and chief executive of SingularityNet, a research group he launched to create “Artificial General Intelligence” or AGI — artificial intelligence with human cognitive abilities.
With his long hair and leopard-print cowboy hat, Goertzel was in provocative mode last week at the world’s biggest annual technology conference, Web Summit in Rio de Janeiro, where he told AFP in an interview that AGI is still a few years away. and spoke against it. Recent attempts to curtail artificial intelligence research.
Smart like humans? ,
Q: How far are we from artificial intelligence with human cognitive abilities?
“If we want machines to be truly smart as people and as agile in dealing with the unknown, they need to be able to make huge leaps beyond their training and programming. And we’re not there yet. But I think There is reason to believe that it will take years rather than decades for us to get there.”
– AI Risk –
Q: What do you think about the debate around AI like ChatGPT and its risks? Should there be a six-month research break, as some are advocating?
“I don’t think we should stop it because it’s like a dangerous extraterrestrial AI… These are very interesting AI systems, but they’re not capable of becoming like human-level general intelligence, because they’re complex multi-stage Can’t do reasoning, like you need to do science. They can’t invent wild new things outside the scope of their training data.
“They can also spread misinformation, and people are saying we should block them because of that. That’s very strange to me. Why don’t we ban the Internet? That’s exactly what the Internet does. It gives you more at your fingertips.” Gives information. And it spreads nonsense and misinformation.
“I think we should have a free society. And just like the Internet shouldn’t be banned, we shouldn’t ban it.”
– Job Threat –
Question: Isn’t their ability to change people’s jobs at risk?
“You can probably make obsolete 80 percent of the jobs that people do without AGI, by my estimate. Not with ChatGPT as a product. But with systems of that nature that are going to be implemented in the next few years.” .
“I don’t think it’s a threat. I think it’s an advantage. People can find better things to do with their lives than work for a living… a lot of paperwork involved Everything should be automated.
“The problem I see is in the interim period, when AIs are making human tasks obsolete one by one … I don’t know (how) to solve all the social issues.”
– Aye positive –
Question: What can robots do for society today, and what will they be able to do in the future if AGI is achieved?
“You can do a lot of cool things with AI.
“Like Grace,[a robot nurse]we demonstrated at Web Summit Rio. There are a huge number of elderly people in America sitting alone in old age homes. And they’re not that bad in terms of physical condition — you have medical care and food and big screens.” Walla TV is there – but they are poor in terms of emotional and social support. So if you inject a humanoid robot into it that will answer your questions, listen to your stories, help you make calls with your kids or order something online If you do, you are improving people’s lives. Once you get to AGI, they become even better companions.
“In that case, you’re not eliminating human jobs. Because basically, there are not enough people who want to do nursing and nursing assistant jobs.
“I think education would be a wonderful market for humanoid robots as well as domestic help.”
– Regulation –
Q: What rules do we need for AI to have a positive impact?
“You need society to develop these AIs for them to do good things. And the governance of AIs to be participative among the population in some way. All of these things are technically possible. The problem is that most AI research is not funded. companies don’t care about doing good things. They care about maximizing shareholder value.”
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