Calculations Suggest It'll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI
Scientists back in 2021 crunched the numbers. It has since been updated to reflect AI advances in 2023.
- ▪Scientists back in 2021 crunched the numbers.
- ▪It has since been updated to reflect AI advances in 2023.
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| Publication time | Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:35:03 +0000 |
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Calculations Suggest It'll Be Impossible to Control a Super-Intelligent AI Tech14 June 2023By David Nield Add ScienceAlert on Google A still from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". (MGM) The idea of artificial intelligence overthrowing humankind has been talked about for decades – and programs such as ChatGPT have only renewed these concerns.So how likely is it that we'll be able to control high-level computer super-intellgence? Scientists back in 2021 crunched the numbers. The answer? Almost definitely not.
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