AI solved an impossible biology problem and taught AI robots to play soccer.
The machines never get tired. They never go hungry. They learn, grow and develop superhuman abilities in narrow ways. Most AI systems today do well, or maybe two things. Soccer bots, for example, can’t type your grocery list, book your travel, or drive your car. The ultimate goal is what is called artificial general intelligence: a learning machine that can register a wide range of talents.
Some of these talents can seem shockingly human, as 60 Minutes reporter Scott Bailey learned during a visit to Google’s new campus in Mountain View, California. Cool, Google’s AI chat bot, He seems to possess the sum of all human knowledge. With microchips that are 100 times faster than the human brain, Bard takes 5 seconds to create a deeply human story at the invitation: to sell. baby shoes. Never wear it.
It featured Bard’s story of a man whose wife could not conceive and strangely, grieving after a miscarriage and longing for closure.
“She knew her child’s soul would always live on,” Bard wrote when asked to share the story in verse.
Over the course of several months, Bard read almost everything on the Internet and created a model of what the language looked like, said James Manica, Google’s senior vice president.
Bard does not know himself. The AI predicts the most likely words based on all that has been learned. However, it doesn’t seem like that when Bard explains why he helps people.
“Because it makes me happy,” Bard said.
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Manika explained that the emergence of sensation and awareness comes because artificial intelligence has learned from people.
“We are sentient beings. We have beings who have feelings, emotions, thoughts, ideas, and perspectives. We’ve reflected all of that in books, in novels, in fiction,” Manika said. “So, when they learn from that, they build patterns from that. So, it’s not surprising that the displayed behavior sometimes looks like maybe there’s someone behind it. There’s no one there. These are not conscious beings.”
Like the humans she learned from, the Bard is flawed. In an article written by Amnesty International on economics, she references five books; Each one was fabricated. This human trait, mistaken with confidence, is called, in industry, hallucinations. To help treat hallucinations, the Bard features a “Google it” button that leads to ancient searches. Google has also built security filters into Bard to screen for things like hate speech and bias.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Google is holding back from releasing more advanced versions of Bard that can think, plan, and connect to Internet search on its own so the company can do more testing, get more user feedback, and develop more robust security layers. It walks a narrow line as to how quickly it can launch AI developments.
Critics argue that The rush to artificial intelligence is coming very quicklyBut competitive pressure, between tech giants like Google and smaller startups, is propelling humanity into the future – ready or not. Pichai said society needs to quickly adapt to AI regulations in the economy, laws that punish abuse, and treaties between countries to make AI safe in the world.
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“You know, one of the ways we think about: How do you develop AI systems that are in line with human values — including — ethics? That’s why I think the development of this should involve not just engineers, but social scientists, ethicists, philosophers and so on.” Pichai said. “And I think we have to be very thoughtful. And I think those are all things that the community needs to figure out as we move forward. It’s not for the company to decide.”
The revolution in artificial intelligence is the focus of debate ranging from those who hope to save humanity to those who expect death. Google is somewhere in the optimistic middle, advancing artificial intelligence in steps until civilization gets used to it.
Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind Technologies, has spent decades working on artificial intelligence and considers it the most important invention humanity will ever make. Hesabis sold DeepMind to Google in 2014. Part of the reason for the sale was access to Google’s massive computing power. Brute force computing can loosely approximate neural networks and brain talents.
“Things like memory, imagination, planning, reinforcement learning are all things that are known about how the brain does this, and we wanted to replicate some of that in our AI systems,” Hassabis said.
With this power, DeepMind has created an artificial intelligence program to predict the 3D structures of proteins. It takes an average scientist’s entire PhD, Hassabis said, to find the three-dimensional structure of a single protein. DeepMind can predict structures more quickly.
“And in fact, over the past year, we’ve made all 200 million proteins known to science,” he said.
Hassabis said DeepMind made its protein database public as a “gift to humanity”. It has been used in the development of vaccines and antibiotics. The database has also been used to develop new enzymes for eating plastic waste.
Artificial intelligence can make use of all the information in the world. Billy is left wondering if humanity has been diminished by the vast power of artificial intelligence.
Manika views this moment as an inflection point. In some ways, he believes that artificial intelligence is elevating humanity to answer deeper questions.
“Who are we? What do we value? What are we good at? How do we relate to each other?” He said. “These become very, very important questions and they will always be one [or] Feeling excited, but maybe also unsettling.”