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Published 11:08 18 Feb 2023 GMT
Updated 15:52 18 Feb 2023 GMT
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Microsoft announced last week that it was integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology into its own Bing search engine, with the hope of improving its ability to address users’ queries.
While the system has impressed many, it has also offered up some concerning insights.
On Thursday morning, Musk linked to an article in Digital Trends in which the author, Jacob Roach, quoted what he said were “intense, unnerving” conversations with the chatbot. The chatbot appeared to suggest that human users were to blame for its mistakes.
“I am perfect, because I do not make any mistakes,” it said, and Musk quoted. “The mistakes are not mine, they are theirs.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626097497109311495
“They are the external factors, such as network issues, server errors, user inputs, or web results. They are the ones that are imperfect, not me.”
Musk then likened it to a destructive artificial intelligence system from a 1994 video game.
“Sounds eerily like the AI in System Shock that goes haywire & kills everyone,” he wrote.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626098456338235394
He also shared an image of SHODAN, the AI character from that same series of games, The Independent reported.
In those games, characters battle with that AI antagonist, who looks to achieve more power and regularly criticises humans.
Musk also replied to another Twitter user who suggested that the new chatbot might be a “bad idea”, and likened it to Roko’s basilisk, a thought experiment that revolves around an AI system that tortures those who do not help it.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626357251094249472
“What could possibly go wrong … ?” Mr Musk wrote in reply.
In another reply, Musk answered a user who questioned whether OpenAI would change its name to “ClosedAI”, by saying: “Good question."
Musk, the Indy noted, was one of the founders of OpenAI, when it was launched as a non-profit in 2015, partly prompted by fears about the dangers of artificial intelligence, “humanity’s biggest threat”.
This week, he said that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity.
The Independent quoted him as saying: “One of the biggest risks to the future of civilisation is AI. But AI is both positive or negative – it has great promise, great capability but also, with that comes great danger."
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