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But “little minds discuss people, great minds discuss ideas” said Socrates, so here we will want to focus on understanding the ideas underlying this conflict. OpenAI is a very particular structure, where the board does not represent shareholders but a non-profit serving the preservation of the initial mission: to develop an AGI, and ensure that it benefits all of humanity . AGI is the Holy Grail of AI: Artificial General Intelligence, that is to say: an intelligence comparable to humans, capable of learning, initiative, adaptation. This is a point that is intensely hoped for by all AI researchers: with this type of AI, we will be able to have growing capabilities for research into drugs, once morest global warming, etc. Most specialists do not see it reached for five or ten years, or even more.
OpenAI board will do “everything in its power to reunify the company”
But some predict that once reached, this point will allow the continuous and extremely rapid improvement of this AI by itself, to fairly quickly reach ASI (Artificial SuperIntelligence), superior to humans. And reaching this point carries dangers, perhaps existential for humanity. Some experts are quick to make AGI as powerful (and potentially devastating) as the discovery of atomic energy. Behind the saga of people, it is such an “Oppenheimer” moment which is inscribed in the watermark: a frantic race to the first who will reach it, an enormous stake of a use which can be deleterious in the wrong hands and the necessity to preserve the disinterested nature of OpenAI’s mission. This episode should at least encourage us to quickly delve deeper into the ethical and regulatory issues of this new class of AI.
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