The makers of ChatGPT have warned that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could “exceed expert skill level” across most domains within the next 10 years as “superintelligence” becomes more powerful than any “other technologies humanity has had to contend with.”
Open AI executives including CEO Sam Altman; President, Chairman, & Co-Founder, Greg Brockman; and Co-Founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, made the comments in a blog post published on May 22.
The executives noted that it is “conceivable” that within the next ten years, AI systems could carry out as much productivity as one of today’s largest corporations.
“In terms of both potential upsides and downsides, superintelligence will be more powerful than other technologies humanity has had to contend with in the past,” they wrote. “We can have a dramatically more prosperous future but we have to manage risk to get there. Given the possibility of existential risk, we can’t just be reactive.”…