2023-05-04 17:30:05
For a few months, artificial intelligence (AI) has been becoming more and more established in our daily lives. Technologies like ChatGPT, capable of answering all our questions or carrying out our written tasks, are once again changing the communication paradigm. However, everything that is advanced is also threatened or, at least, that is what Stephen Hawking thought.
The physicist, who died in 2018, left a written prediction about what AI could mean when it took its first steps years ago.
Months after his death, the book came to light ‘Short answers to the big questions’ which addressed various issues of technological advances and the field of scientific innovation.
In its pages, a reflection on AI that is giving a lot of talk now that the generators of text, images or video using acquired parameters are becoming very popular.
“Potentially the worst mistake of all”
“It could end the human race,” the author of ‘A Brief History of Time’, who dedicated his entire life to answering the great mysteries of science, even said.
“We can face an explosion of intelligence that, ultimately, results in machines whose intelligence exceeds ours by more than ours exceeds that of snails,” he added in the aforementioned posthumous publication.
«It is tempting to dismiss the notion of highly intelligent machines. as mere science fiction, but this would be a mistake, and potentially the worst mistake of all, “Hawking explained, about the danger that not taking the revolution that artificial intelligence entails seriously.
The irruption of this technology is already affecting various areas of the world of work, ranging from art to journalism, including the development of work in large corporations like IBMwhich has recently suggested the option of drastically reducing its administrative staff given the potential of artificial intelligence and automation technologies to execute this type of task.
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