{"id":177583,"date":"2023-10-20T04:35:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T23:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=177583"},"modified":"2023-10-20T04:35:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T23:05:44","slug":"meta-chief-ai-scientist-says-ai-wont-threaten-humans-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/meta-chief-ai-scientist-says-ai-wont-threaten-humans-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta chief AI scientist says AI won’t threaten humans – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The chief artificial intelligence (AI) scientist at Meta has spoken out, reportedly saying that worries over the existential risks of the technology are still \u201cpremature,\u201d according to a Financial Times interview<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Oct. 19 the FT quotes Yann LeCun as saying the premature regulation of AI technology will reinforce dominance of Big Tech companies and leave no room for competition. <\/p>\n

\u201cRegulating research and development in AI is incredibly counterproductive,\u201d he said. LeCun believes regulators are using the guise of AI safety for what he called \u201cregulatory capture.\u201d <\/p>\n

Since the AI boom really took off after the release of OpenAI\u2019s chatbot ChatGPT-4 in November 2022, various thought leaders in the industry have come out proclaiming threats to humanity at the hands of AI. <\/p>\n

Dr. Geoffrey Hinton, known as the \u201cgodfather of AI,\u201d left his position<\/a> in machine learning at Google so that he could \u201ctalk about the dangers of AI.<\/p>\n

Director of the Center for AI Safety, Dan Hendrycks tweeted back in May that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI<\/a> should become a global priority on par with \u201cother societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Related: <\/u><\/em><\/strong>Forget Cambridge Analytica \u2014 Here\u2019s how AI could threaten elections<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

However, on the same topic, LeCun said in his latest interview that the idea is \u201cpreposterous\u201d that AI will kill off humanity. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe debate on existential risk is very premature until we have a design for a system that can even rival a cat in terms of learning capabilities, which we don\u2019t have at the moment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also claimed that current AI models are not as capable as some claim, saying they don\u2019t understand how the world works and are not able to \u201cplan\u201d or \u201creason.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to LeCun, he expects that AI will eventually help manage our everyday lives, saying that, \u201ceveryone\u2019s interaction with the digital world will be mediated by AI systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, fears surrounding the power of the technology remain a concern among many. The AI task force advisor in the United Kingdom has warned that AI<\/a> could threaten humanity within two years. <\/p>\n

Magazine: <\/em><\/strong>\u2018Moral responsibility\u2019: Can blockchain really improve trust in AI?<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The chief artificial intelligence (AI) scientist at Meta has spoken out, reportedly saying that worries over the existential risks of the technology are still \u201cpremature,\u201d according to a Financial Times interview.\u00a0 On Oct. 19 the FT quotes Yann LeCun as saying the premature regulation of AI technology will reinforce dominance of Big Tech companies and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[235,203,210,234,231,232,237,238,236,233],"class_list":["post-177583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blockchain","tag-bitcoin","tag-crypto-currency","tag-elon-musk","tag-ethereum","tag-hyperledger","tag-ibm","tag-mining","tag-nodes","tag-spacex","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177586,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177583\/revisions\/177586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}