- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said that pausing AI research will not solve the problems and that it is better to focus on how to use advances in AI sensibly.
- It was a response to the request by Elon Musk and other notables to halt AI research for at least 6 months due to the risks it poses to humanity.
- Gates is a proponent of AI and believes it can be used to reduce the world’s inequalities.
The call to pause artificial intelligence (AI) developments “will not solve the challenges” we face, Bill Gates said on Tuesday, April 4.
The Microsoft co-founder responded via Reuters to the public request of a group of notables that last week asked OpenAI to pause for at least 6 months the investigations in the development of its ChatGPT and other software related to AI.
Among the notables were several engineers and businessmen, one of them, the magnate Elon Musk.
Gates, now a philanthropist, said it was best to “focus on the most sensible way to use advances in artificial intelligence” because “it will be hard to understand how a global pause could work.”
Bill Gates versus Elon Musk
The founder of Tesla and CEO of Twitter, together with hundreds of world businessmen and scientists, signed a call last Wednesday, March 29, to stop research related to AI such as ChatGPT and others for 6 months, arguing that “they are very risky.” for the humanity”.
In the public call, published on the futureoflife.org site, they demanded that a moratorium be produced until security systems are determined that include regulatory bodies, surveillance systems, techniques that are capable of distinguishing between what is real and what is false, and organizations that can cope with the “dramatic economic and political disruptions (especially for democracy) that artificial intelligence will cause.”
Gates’s response
In his interview with ReutersGates, who still owns a large number of shares in Microsoft, the giant behind OpenAI, said: “I don’t think asking a certain group to pause their investigations will solve anything.”
“It is very clear that there are great benefits in these things, what you have to do is identify the difficult sectors, and address them,” he added.
Although today he is focused on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates is an advocate of artificial intelligence, which he has described as something “as revolutionary as the Internet or mobile phones.”
In a blog titled “The AI era has begun,” which was posted on March 21, 24 hours before the notables’ petition, he said artificial intelligence should be used to help reduce the planet’s worst inequalities. .
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