The development of artificial intelligence is so rapid that a museum in San Francisco, the center of the technological revolution, has created a monument commemorating the death of humanity.
“I’m sorry for killing people with smiles and mustaches,” says an audience visiting the “Museum of Incompatibility,” a new exhibit of controversial technology.
Trailers for this makeshift show combine the disturbing with the funny, and in this first show, AI provides visitors with meaningful observations that fall within its field of view.
“The concept of the museum is that we are in a post-apocalyptic world where general artificial intelligence has already destroyed most of humanity,” said Audrey Kim, curator of the exhibition.
“But then the AI realizes that it’s bad and creates a kind of monument to man, so our show’s motto is ‘I’m sorry I killed so much of humanity,'” he said.
Artificial intelligence is a more obscure concept than even simple artificial intelligence entering everyday life, as evidenced by the rapid emergence of programs like ChatGPT or the Bing chatbot and all the hype surrounding them.
AGI is “artificial intelligence that can do anything a human can do” by integrating human cognitive abilities into machines.
Around the peninsula in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, startups are following the holy grail of AGI. Sam Altman, founder of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, said that AGI, if done right, can “upgrade humanity” and change “the boundaries of possibility”.
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But Kim wants to encourage reflection on the dangers of going too fast.
“There’s been a lot of talk about AI security in quite niche AI circles on Twitter, and I think that’s really important,” he said.
But these conversations aren’t as easily accessible to the general public as concepts you might see or feel, he added. Kim especially loves a sculpture called “Hug Paper Clip”: two human busts made entirely of paper clips holding each other. The study cites a metaphor by philosopher Nick Bostrom, who in the 2000s imagined what would happen if artificial intelligence had been programmed to create paperclips.
“It can become more and more powerful and continually optimize itself to achieve its only goal, to the point of destroying all of humanity to fill the world with paperclips,” Kim said.
Weighing the pros and cons of AI was a topic that interested Kim in her previous work at Cruise, an autonomous vehicle company. There, he said he was working on an “incredible” technology that could “reduce the number of accidents caused by human error” but also involved risks.
The exhibit occupies a small space in a building on a street corner in San Francisco’s trendy Mission District.
The lower floor of the exhibition is devoted to artificial intelligence as a nightmarish dystopia, in which a machine based on ChatGPT’s language model, GPT-3, creates bad handwritten calligrams against humanity. One of the exhibits is an artificially generated and completely fake dialogue between philosopher Slavoj Žižek, two of Europe’s most respected intellectuals, and filmmaker Werner Herzog.
This Endless Conversation is a reflection of deep frauds: images, sounds or videos designed to manipulate ideas by imitating real people and have become the latest weapon of disinformation on the Internet.
“We started this project only five months ago, but most of the technology presented here already looks almost primitive,” Kim said in surprise. He hopes to make the exhibition permanent with more space and more events.
Source: Port Altele
