{"id":3299,"date":"2023-04-16T17:08:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T17:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/machine-learning-investor-warns-ai-is-becoming-like-a-god"},"modified":"2023-04-16T17:08:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T17:08:43","slug":"machine-learning-investor-warns-ai-is-becoming-like-a-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/machine-learning-investor-warns-ai-is-becoming-like-a-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Learning Investor Warns AI Is Becoming Like a God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A serial artificial intelligence investor is raising alarm bells about the dogged pursuit of increasingly-smart machines, which he believes may soon advance to the degree of divinity. In an op-ed for the\u00a0Financial Times, AI mega-investor Ian Hogarth recalled a recent anecdote in which a machine learning researcher with whom he was acquainted told him that &#8220;from now onwards,&#8221; we are on the brink of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) \u2014 an admission that came as something of a shock. &#8220;This is not a universal view,&#8221; Hogarth wrote, noting that &#8220;estimates range from a decade to half a century or more&#8221; before AGI comes to fruition. All the same, there exists a tension between the explicitly AGI-seeking goals of AI companies and the fears of machine learning experts \u2014 not to mention the public \u2014 who understand the concept. &#8220;&#8216;If you think we could be close to something potentially so dangerous,&#8217; I said to the researcher, &#8216;shouldn\u2019t you warn people about what\u2019s happening?'&#8221; the investor recounted. &#8220;He was clearly grappling with the responsibility he faced but, like many in the field, seemed pulled along by the rapidity of progress.&#8221; Like many other parents, Hogarth said that after this encounter, his mind drifted to his four-year-old son. &#8220;As I considered the world he might grow up in, I gradually shifted from shock to anger,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;It felt deeply wrong that consequential decisions potentially affecting every life on Earth could be made by a small group of private companies without democratic oversight.&#8221;&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/ai-investor-agi-warning\">Machine Learning Investor Warns AI Is Becoming Like a God<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A serial artificial intelligence investor is raising alarm bells about the dogged pursuit of increasingly-smart machines, which he believes may soon advance to the degree of divinity. In an op-ed&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1656,300,1477,1657,351,327,877,12,637,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}