The alarming pace of AI innovations puts into perspective its possible trajectory. How long until modern tech reaches its promised potential?
AI systems with human-like capabilities could be years away.
As the AI ecosystem gleans with upgraded models, the world is hooked. At every turn of tech events, techies are enthusiastic to see what a new model will bring to the marketplace.
For tech powerhouses investing billions into AI infrastructure, it poses a challenge.
This shining illusion has been shattered by no one other than the Nobel Prize-winning CEO of Google DeepMind. Hassabis rules that the latest AI systems lack any imagination or consciousness in a recent interview with CBS News:
“They still can’t really yet go beyond asking a new novel question or a new novel conjecture or coming up with a new hypothesis that has not been thought of before.”
The AI researcher wants tech companies to focus more on advancing neuroscience with AI’s help instead of leaping ahead. The future of AI isn’t self-awareness but humanoid machines that might grasp the world around them.
What should be highlighted is the exponential progress of artificial intelligence despite the black box. These systems continue to learn and gather data as part of their training. Now, they require a “value system” and some guidance to shine through and progress from their training stage as humans do, states Hassabis.
And that’s the most alluring aspect of all.