Big bosses are arguing over the newly issued AI regulatory order in the United States, triggering a controversy on the level of human extinction

Two days ago, the United States passed an executive order on AI supervision.

In the future, before each company develops advanced artificial intelligence systems, it will need to report in advance and obtain approval before continuing to develop

And the order is everything is detailed. . .

For example, the content generated by AI must be watermarked, the rights and interests of relevant workers must be protected, AI must not make a lot of people unemployed, and ways must be found to protect the United States’ leading position in AI, etc., all are in this paper. middle.

In short, it seems that the United States values ​​safety more than developing AI, hopes to keep the beast of AI in a cage for development.

This was enough to stir up waves. Some people immediately clapped their hands and applauded, thinking that this should have been done long ago. After all, you don’t want to see AI cost people their jobs.

Some people feel that the situation is terrible. Now the prospects for the development of artificial intelligence have been completely blocked by those conservative people. There is no hope and can only lead to destruction

At the beginning, it was just netizens making noise, but unexpectedly, many big guys in the AI ​​​​circle also took up their positions and became the "Kings of Strong Mouth" and expressed their own opinions.

The following is a brief introduction to each athlete

There are three main figures participating in this "hand-to-hand combat", two Turing Award winners, two of the Big Three, the fathers of deep learning: LeCun and Hinton.

There is also a pioneer of deep learning and machine learning, Andrew Ng, one of the founders of Google Brain.

The first person to speak out was Stanford associate professor Andrew Ng, who posted a tweet on X

His position is very clear, that is - Strict supervision AI is not conducive to innovation at all.

Wu Enda also wrote a long article in detail, first listing some remarks that are often heard on the Internet about "artificial intelligence will cause human extinction" and "artificial intelligence will replace how many people's jobs"

Then they directly put up a target and started shooting, saying that such remarks are pure hype and the most terrifying. It will encourage the emergence of some overly strict regulations and further "suppress open source and innovation."

There are some cases showing that artificial intelligence research has slowed down or even stagnated due to strong supervision. For example, California has suspended its self-driving car project, and some people have developed tools to destroy large generative models, etc.

Ng Enda’s tweet was like lighting a match in a room with gas leaks. The entire AI community was already at war with each other on this topic, but now it exploded. . .

The first person to appear was Hinton. He believed that AI should have been controlled long ago. He did not hide it, faced it head-on, and even made fun of himself

You Enda Ng said that AI has a small risk of destroying mankind, but Hinton and I left Google precisely to be able to speak out about these risks.

Hinton also asked Andrew Ng directly under his post, if AI is not well regulated, what is the probability of human extinction in the next 30 years? My current answer is 0.1, and you must know it yourself.

Faced with Hinton’s successive counterattacks, Ng responded generously. He first distanced himself from the relationship and said that he did not feel that AI was very safe.

I just feel that some of my opinions are too much and may be said to be spreading panic. These views have even affected the development of AI, and this regulatory order in the United States is a living example.

Finally, Ng Enda said something yin and yang: I know your starting point is good, but I think you will definitely do more harm than good by being so naughty every day.

Regarding the issue of AI causing human extinction in 30 years, LeCun, another boss Ng’s "ally", appeared immediately

He directly "attacked the other's shield with his spear" and responded to Hinton:

The factors that lead to human extinction are over. What is more threatening than AI is and AI may save humans from extinction.

Interestingly, some netizens also followed LeCun in pouring oil on Hinton, exposing his prediction in 2016 that radiologists would be replaced by artificial intelligence within 5 years

Hunton himself suddenly became incoherent. He quickly found an excuse to defend himself, saying that he did have some problems with the time scale...

LeCun also pointed out Hinton and Bengio, saying that their current stance is simply helping those technology giants who are unwilling to open source code and open models

Strengthening supervision will raise the threshold for AI research and development, making it more difficult for people who want to enter this industry

Now, the debate is still going on, and many practitioners have come to cheer for their supporters.

Mike, the chief technology officer of Meta Company, put it bluntly, "You only talk about the negative effects of artificial intelligence, but you don't see its benefits, do you?"

Although the failure of artificial intelligence will not destroy mankind, without the help of artificial intelligence, mankind will face a higher risk of extinction, such as earthquakes, meteorites, nuclear war, etc.

According to the frontline battle report, Musk, who is keen on participating in various activities, also joined them

But this time he didn't do anything, but cosplayedFair and Just Captain Dragonfly.

He said seriously: The real battle is between exterminationists and humanists. Once you notice this battle, you can't unsee it.

However, if we look at it, is not quite the same as the "war of words" and "tearing up" that many domestic media have exaggerated.

Although everyone’s opinions are diametrically opposed and the chat is very intense, they are basically all well-founded opinions and can also make people clearly see what the industry’s different views on AI are.

As Amazon founder Beff Jezos said in the comment area, comments like this are crucial and what people need.

There is currently no definite answer in the industry to the balance issue between AI development and regulation

But what is certain is that, as netizens say, "the truth becomes clearer with more debate." Under the constant pull of both parties, the balance between supervision and AI development will always reach a balanced state

. From our perspective, we can only hope that’s the right answer

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: Squirrel & Bajie Editor: Jiang Jiang & Noodles Cover: Xuanxuan

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