AI pioneer: "These AIs cheat, even though they're not allowed to"
Yoshua Bengio is considered one of the fathers of AI. Now he is warning about the creation of a new species and is building an AI that wants nothing - out of concern for the one he himself helped create.
Professor Bengio, a pioneer in AI research, has been warning about the risks of AI for years. He notes that only recently has the discussion about the dangers of AI systems, including their potential to be used for hacking and to spiral out of human control, gained traction. Bengio's work on deep learning, a key technology behind today's AI systems, has enabled AI to learn and become increasingly powerful.
His research group developed methods for training large AI models using text, allowing them to predict the next word and learn word meanings. Bengio initially celebrated the rapid progress in AI, but later recognized the potential for significant negative consequences.
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