AI a velká očekávání (4)

Dear President von der Leyen,

We, experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and its societal impacts, are deeply concerned about your unscientific and inaccurate statement that AI is nearing human reasoning. You claimed in your budget speech in May "we thought AI would only approach human reasoning around 2050. Now we expect this to happen already next year."

We understand from Commission disclosure, which followed a lengthy process to obtain this information, that you relied on the statements of Dario Amodei, Jensen Huang and Sam Altman as the basis for your statement about AI nearing human reasoning. These are marketing statements driven by profit-motive and ideology rather than empirical evidence and formal proof. In short, these tech CEOs claims concerning “superintelligence” and “AGI” are manifestly bound with their financial imperatives and not rigorous science.

For the President of the European Commission to repeat the misleading marketing language of US technology firms without independent scientific verification undermines Europe’s credibility as a reliable and trusted source of scientific knowledge. This is particularly so amidst a significant speculative bubble to which baseless AI hype is contributing.
-- Open letter: retract your unscientific AI hype (via)