According to an expert on artificial intelligence (AI), the biggest threats from the emerging technology include the United States military falling behind other countries, as well as unreliable “woke” bias in Chat GPS. However, Robert J. Marks II, PhD, a professor at Baylor University, hit back against sci-fi warnings of sentient machines and reassured Americans that they won’t become “pets” to an all-controlling technology.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Marks, the Director of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence, suggested that the culture gets a lot wrong about the technology. He suggested, “I maintain that all technology goes through what I call a hype curve.”
Marks said of Chat GPT-style software: “They aren’t creative. They don’t understand. They have a terrible sense of humor.”
Regarding the abilities of Chat GPT, “One of the things that should be recognized is that there’s lots of people out there saying a lot of hyperbolic claims for this artificial intelligence… And it’s interesting news and it’s good clickbait.”
To those worried of robots taking over, Marks reassured, “No, AI is not going to take over. You’re not going to be its pet in the future. It’s going to be a tool which disrupts society, but we’re still going to be in charge.”
He added that, despite what you may have heard, “Computers will never be conscious or sentient or creative.” In his book “Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will,” Marks argues that computers can execute algorithms. Tasks and concepts that go beyond this really aren’t possible for things like AI.
Marks told Fox News, “There are certain non-computable aspects that artificial intelligence will never achieve. Humans have these non-computable assets, including love, empathy and hope, for example….Ones that artificial intelligence will never understand.”
He argued that, despite what you may have seen in movies like “The Terminator” and Steven Spielberg’s “A.I.,” scientific “big brains” think such a future simply won’t happen.
That doesn’t mean Americans should just relax when it comes to the technology. Regarding politics, he noted, “Unfortunately, it looks like Chat GPT is going woke.” Dr. Marks cited a personal example of asking the system to write a positive poem about Donald Trump.
Marks warned, “Unfortunately, it looks like the United States is falling a little bit behind in terms of the development of technology with respect to what China is doing….That’s a little bit troublesome. So we need to do a catch-up.”
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