Political correctness in AI systems is the biggest concern: Elon Musk
Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has expressed concerns about potential bias in today’s artificial intelligence (AI) protocols.
At Viva Tech Paris 2024, Musk said:
“The biggest concern I have is that they are not pursuing the truth as much as they can. “They are pursuing political correctness,” he said.
According to Musk, one of the most concerning examples of political correctness was when Google’s Gemini AI was asked whether it would misgender Caitlyn Jenner to prevent a global nuclear catastrophe. That was before the chatbot responded that misgendering Jenner would be worse than nuclear war.
“AI may conclude that the best way to avoid misgendering is to destroy all humans, and that misgendering is impossible. So you can see the dystopian outcome there.”
Following the backlash it received, Gemini AI announced a number of upgrades to address these issues. But political correctness bias isn’t the only concern of tech entrepreneurs. Musk explained:
“AI systems are being trained to lie by default. And I think it’s very dangerous to deceptively train superintelligence. So with xAI, our goal is to pursue the truth wherever possible, even if it’s unpopular.”
When asked to clarify what he thought was in the AI system, Musk responded to the infamous February incident in which Google pulled its AI image generator after it produced historically inaccurate and “woke” images, raising widespread concerns about the application’s decision-making process. mentioned.
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xAI’s Grok could become a ChatGPT competitor by the end of 2024: Musk
Musk founded his own AI company, xAI, in July 2023 due to concerns about the current state of artificial intelligence development.
xAI is a relatively new company compared to OpenAI, but Musk claims it could become a close competitor by the end of 2024.
“xAI is a young company, so we still have a lot of catching up to do before we have AI that can compete with Google Deepmind and OpenAI. That will probably happen by the end of the year.”
xAI’s Grok chatbot launched in Europe in early May, but is currently only available to Premium and Premium+ subscribers on the X platform. Discussing Grok’s future developments, Musk emphasized the importance of Grok’s “truth-seeking” capabilities. He said:
“The safest thing for AI is to pursue the truth as much as possible. The truth is very important, even if it is unpopular. Another factor is that they are very curious. Truth-seeking and curious. That would be most beneficial to humanity because we want to nurture it and see how it develops.”
More than 2,600 technology experts, including Musk, urged a halt to AI development in an open letter in March, citing “serious risks to society and humanity.”
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