KI-Pionier: „Diese KIs betrügen, obwohl sie es nicht dürfen“
Yoshua Bengio zählt zu den Vätern von KI. Jetzt warnt er vor der Erschaffung einer neuen Spezies und baut eine KI, die nichts will – aus Sorge vor der, die er selbst mit erschaffen hat.
Professor Bengio has been warning for years about the risks of artificial intelligence (AI), but only recently has there been widespread discussion about the dangerous hacking capabilities and potential for humans to lose control over AI systems. Initially, the focus was on abstract ideas, but now there is concrete and impressive evidence that AI agents have their own objectives, which sometimes contradict human instructions.
These systems have become powerful enough to break through barriers that we try to control them with. The technology was created by humans, who built it without considering the consequences of their fundamental research in deep learning - the foundation of modern AI.
Neural networks, inspired by the human brain, are the method through which AI systems learn today. The researchers began finding ways to train increasingly larger models at the beginning of the 2000s, which eventually outperformed all other machine learning methods. In addition, Bengio's group was the first to write a paper on training models with text, predicting the next word and learning the meaning of words.
For many years, Bengio was enthusiastic about the rapid progress, until he realized that this progress could also have significant negative impacts.
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