Billionaire Bill Gates: Can’t stop the development of AI

Billionaire Bill Gates said on April 4 that it would be better to focus on how to best use AI developments because it is difficult to understand how halting AI technologies could work globally.

Gates gave an interview to Reuters news agency after a letter was published last week by billionaire Elon Musk and more than 1,000 AI experts calling for an urgent halt to the development of systems “more powerful” than new GPT-4 version of OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT, backed by Microsoft.

 

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates thinks calls to halt AI development will not “address the challenges” ahead. Photo: Reuters

In the letter, experts, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, said it was necessary to assess the potential risks and benefits to society. Mr. Gates said on 3/4: “I don’t think asking a particular group to pause is going to solve the challenges. Obviously there are huge benefits to these things… what we need to do. is to identify difficult problems “.

Microsoft has managed to outperform its peers through multi-billion dollar investments in OpenAI. While focusing full-time on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates remains an active advocate of AI and describes it as as revolutionary as the Internet or mobile phones.

In an article titled “The Age of AI Has Begun” published on March 21, a day before billionaire Elon Musk’s letter calling for a halt to AI development and experts, Gates believes that AI should be used to help alleviate some of the worst inequality problems in the world.

Gates also said in the interview that it would be complicated to specifically enforce any pause request. The billionaire said: “I really don’t understand they are saying who can stop and if every country in the world will agree to stop and why should stop. There are many different opinions in the field. this “.

In a related development, US President Joe Biden said on April 4 that it remains to be seen whether artificial intelligence (AI) is dangerous, but emphasized that technology companies have a responsibility to ensure products. their safe before publication.

During a meeting with the White House Science and Technology Council, President Biden emphasized that AI can help people fight very difficult challenges like disease and climate change. The US President also said that experts and scientists have a responsibility to address risks to society, the economy and national security.

Mr. Biden reiterated his call for Congress to pass privacy legislation that would put limits on the personal data tech companies can collect, ban ads aimed at children, and prioritize consider the health and safety aspects of the product development process.