{"id":1625,"date":"2023-12-01T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T01:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2023-12-01T09:18:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T01:18:14","slug":"%e5%be%ae%e8%bd%af%e6%80%bb%e8%a3%81%e8%a1%a8%e7%a4%ba%e7%9f%ad%e6%9c%9f%e5%86%85%e4%b8%8d%e5%8f%af%e8%83%bd%e5%87%ba%e7%8e%b0%e8%b6%85%e7%ba%a7%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd-agi%ef%bc%8c%e5%bc%ba%e8%b0%83-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/1625.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft President says super-intelligent AGI is unlikely to appear in the short term, stresses the importance of AI safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%be%ae%e8%bd%af\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Microsoft]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Microsoft<\/a>The president of the company stated that<strong>Creating Super Smart in the Next 12 Months<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e4%ba%ba%e5%b7%a5%e6%99%ba%e8%83%bd\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [artificial intelligence]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a>(AI) is virtually impossible<\/strong>, and warned that the technology could be decades away from being realized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-content__img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1626\" title=\"201811151633428399_20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/201811151633428399_20.jpg\" alt=\"201811151633428399_20\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/openai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [OpenAI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >OpenAI<\/a> 's co-founder Sam Altman was removed as CEO by the company's board of directors earlier this month, but was quickly reappointed amid an outcry from employees and shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters last week<span class=\"spamTxt\">exclusive<\/span>According to the report, Altman's removal comes on the heels of researchers reporting a dangerous discovery to the board of directors, which they feared could have unintended consequences.<\/p>\n<p>A source told Reuters that<strong>The internal program called Q* (pronounced Q-Star) could be the startup's way of finding so-called artificial general intelligence (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/agi\" title=\"_OTHER ORGANISER\" target=\"_blank\" >AGI<\/a>) Breakthroughs<\/strong>OpenAI defines AGI as an autonomous system that outperforms humans in most economically valuable tasks.<\/p>\n<p>However, Microsoft president Brad Smith denied the claims of a dangerous breakthrough in an interview with reporters in the UK on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u300c<strong>The possibility of seeing so-called AGI, where computers are more powerful than humans, in the next 12 months<span class=\"spamTxt\">absolute<\/span>to zero. It will take years, maybe even decades, but I still think it's time to focus on security now<\/strong>,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>The warning to the OpenAI board was one of many grievances that led to Altman's dismissal, sources told Reuters, along with concerns about commercializing progress before assessing the risks.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if such a finding led to Altman's dismissal, Smith said, \"I don't think that's the case at all. I think there was clearly a disagreement between the board and others, but it wasn't based on such concerns.\"<\/p>\n<p>\u300c<strong>What we really need are safety brakes. Just like safety brakes in elevators, circuit breakers in electrical circuits, and emergency brakes in buses - there should be safety brakes in the AI systems that control critical infrastructure to ensure that they are always under human control<\/strong>,\" Smith added.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of Microsoft said that the possibility of creating super-intellectual artificial intelligence (AI) within the next 12 months was almost non-existent and warned that the technology might take decades to achieve. The co-founder of OpenAI, Sam Altman, was removed from the CEO position by the company's board earlier this month, but was quickly reappointed in a strong protest by employees and shareholders. Reuters alone reported last week that Altman ' s dismissal followed a risk discovery reported to the Board by researchers who feared that it could have unintended consequences. One source told Reuters that an internal project called Q* might be the original company looking for what is called AGI<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[151,190,204,280],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-agi","tag-openai","tag-204","tag-280"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}