When researcher Jan Leike quit his job at OpenAI last month, he warned the tech firm’s “safety culture and processes (had) taken a backseat” while it trained its next artificial intelligence model.
He voiced particular concern about the company’s goal to develop “artificial general intelligence”, a supercharged form of machine learning that it says would be “smarter than humans”.
Some industry experts say AGI may be achievable within 20 years, but others say it will take many decades, if at all.
But what is AGI, how should it be regulated and what effect will it have on people and jobs?
What is AGI?
OpenAI defines AGI as a system “generally smarter than humans”. Scientists disagree on what this exactly means.
“Narrow” AI includes ChatGPT, which can perform a specific, singular task. This works by pattern matching, akin to putting together a puzzle without understanding what the pieces represent, and without the ability to count or complete logic puzzles.
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