Researcher Virginia Dignum noted this Sunday that artificial intelligence (AI), although it resembles human intelligence and even surpasses it in some tasks, is still limited by computing technology and is unlikely to act like or against humans.
“AI is very similar to us, it has the ability to classify things, identify, predict based on past data,” but “in the end” it comes down to “mathematical formulas that are not capable of developing ambitions, intentions.” or conscience,” said the Portuguese professor who teaches responsible artificial intelligence at Umeå University in Sweden.
“We are those who have the ability to attribute consciousness and intentions to innate objects and systems,” he emphasized.
Virginia Dignum is a member of the UN advisory body on AI, recently created on the recommendation of Secretary-General António Guterres.
By next summer, the body is due to submit a “design” proposal to the UN agency on artificial intelligence, which will be assessed by member states, but before that, by December, it must produce a report examining the risks. challenges, benefits and opportunities of AI and with recommendations.
According to Virginia Dignum, the capabilities of modern computing technologies are limited. Conscience is one of them.
“ChatGPT [programa de IA que permite simular uma conversação na internet com humanos] He is able to talk and explain anything and everything about cats, but he does not know what a cat is, he has never felt a cat, has never seen a cat, has never interacted with a cat. The only thing he knows is written texts and images made about cats,” he explained.
Virginia Dignum emphasized that artificial intelligence programs continue to be just that: “programs, algorithms, recipes.”
“Complex recipes, recipe-making recipes, programs creating programs,” he described, acknowledging that despite this programming, “unexpected harmful behavior” could arise.
“But this does not mean that the system is out of control, we can stop it,” he warned.
For the researcher, although AI surpasses human intelligence in solving problems such as calculating square roots, it is far from what humans can do.
“Human intelligence is not just the ability to solve problems,” he said, listing among the “multi-dimensional abilities” of human intelligence “emotional, musical, spatial and social intelligence.”
“AI is not as intelligent as we are, it is not as artificial as we think,” he stressed, adding that its autonomy “is more of an automaticity.”
Therefore, Virginia Dignum considers it “completely implausible” that AI would act unchecked and against the people who created the technology.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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