Since it launched at the end of November 2022, ChatGPT, developed by the company OpenAI of the Artificial intelligence With financial backing from Microsoft, it has sparked all kinds of discussions and speculations about the impact that generative artificial intelligence is already having and will have in our near future.
It is the branch of AI that is dedicated to generating original content from existing data in response to instructions from a user. As reported by the BBCNewsthis new phenomenon has led to a human resources revolutionwith companies like tech giant IBM announcing that it will stop hiring people to fill nearly 8,000 jobs that can be handled by AI.
Likewise, a report from the research bankrsion Goldman Sachs estimated in late March that AI could replace a quarter of all human jobs today, though it will also create more productivity and new jobs. And everything that’s going on is just the first stage of three.
The three stages of AI:
AI technologies are classified by their ability to mimic human characteristics.
1. Narrow Artificial Intelligence (ANI)
It is known by its acronym in English: ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence). It focuses only on a single task, performing repetitive work within a range by its creators. In addition, they are trained using a large data set (for example from the internet) and can make decisions or perform actions based on that training.
The ANI can match or exceed human intelligence and efficiency but only in that specific area in which it operates. Example: Chess programs that use AI. They are capable of beating the world champion of that discipline, but cannot perform other tasks.
Another example are the smartphones They are full of apps that use this technology, from GPS maps that allow you to locate yourself anywhere in the world or find out the weather, to music and video programs that know your tastes and make recommendations. Siri and Alexa is also ANI, just like Google search engine and the robot that cleans your house.
2. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
In this second stage (Artificial General Intelligence) It occurs when a machine acquires cognitive abilities at the human level. This means that it can perform any intellectual task that a person performs. here you are GPT-4, the latest version of ChatGPT.
It is also known as“strong AI”. The AGI has the same intellectual capacity as a human.
This is when Elon Musk and other characters have entered to request that the trials be stopped because it could be harmful. “AI systems with intelligence that competes with humans can poseprofound risks to society and humanity”, they warned in an open letter.
In the letter from the experts, they defined what their main concerns were.
“Should we develop non-human minds that could eventually outnumber us, outsmart us, make us obsolete and replace us?” they questioned.
“Should we risklose control of our civilization?”.
3. Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)
Computer scientists are very concerned and it is due to the well-established theory that when we reach AGI, the last stage in the development of this technology will be reached shortly after: Artificial Superintelligence, which occurs when synthetic intelligence surpasses human intelligence.
Experts define it as “an intellect that is far more intelligent than the best human brains in virtually every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom, and social skills.”
The theory indicates that when a machine achieves intelligence on a par with humans, its ability to multiply that intelligence exponentially through its own autonomous learning will make it vastly surpass us in a short time, reaching ASI.
“Humans to be engineers, nurses or lawyers must study for a long time. The thing with AGI is that it’s scalable right out of the box.”says Gutierrez.
This is thanks to a process called recursive self-improvement (recursive self-improvement) that allows an AI application to “continually improve itself, in a time that we couldn’t.”
The debate here is about whether a machine can really acquire the kind of broad Intelligence that a human being has, especially when it comes to emotional intelligence and this is what worries scientists if Artificial Intelligence could achieve it.
Recently, the so-called “godfather of artificial intelligence” Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer in the investigation of neural networks and deep learning that allow machines to learn from experience, just like humans, alerted in an interview with the BBC that we might be close to that milestone.
“Right now (the machines) are not smarter than us, from what I can see. ButI think they could soon besaid the 75-year-old, who just retired from Google.
Among the latter was the famous British physicist Stephen Hawkingwho believed that super-intelligent machines posed a threat to our existence.
The distinguished British physicist Stephen Hawking believed that super-intelligent AI could lead to the “end of the human race.”
“The development of full artificial intelligence could meanthe end of the human race”, he told the BBC in 2014, four years before he died.
A machine with this level of intelligence would “take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate,” he said.
“Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, could not compete and would be outclassed,” he predicted.