What is the long-term of synthetic intelligence (AI)?Or, much more applicable to humans, what is our long term with AI?As can be noted in the avalanche of writing on this topic, we are even close to a definitive answer, with revisions ranging from utopia to dystopia and everything in between.
What is clear, however, is that giant language model chatbots will be disruptive. Open AI’s ChatGPT, which is still the most productive known, now has a lot of festival, it is already helping academics and programmers to be more efficient. But chatbots are also used by hackers to generate fraudulent emails. They can eliminate thousands, if not millions, of jobs. And there is a fear that AI will escape the control of its creators and become the master, rather than servant, of humanity.
These dangers were part of an AppSec Decoded verbal exchange at the RSA 2023 convention between Taylor Armerding, security at Synopsys Software Integrity Group, and Bruce Schneier, lead security architecture officer at Inrupt, Inc. and keynote speaker at RSA.
Schneier, a self-proclaimed public interest technologist and the “Schneier on Security” blog, where he has written extensively on AI, is a tenured professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School; Board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow and Tor Project. and member of the Advisory Board of EPIC and VerifiedVoting. org. It is the New York Times bestseller with 14 books, plus Click Here to Kill Everybody, as well as plenty of articles, essays, and educational articles.
Schneier said that, somehow, ChatGPT has already “escaped” human control. “It constantly produces effects that we don’t know where they’re coming from and that we never wanted,” he said. “But unplugging the computer means you’re next. “to him with his hand on the cable and can pull. Imagine having an AI that controls the physical area around you. Suddenly, it can be harder. “
Schneier also predicted that AI will make its users more efficient, whether it’s writing code, legal summaries, or educational study papers. In the case of a lawyer, “you may not update it, but it can triple your workload. So now a third of lawyers will earn twice as much. “
Will it create new tasks, as each and every technological advance has done in the past?”I don’t know enough to expect that,” he said. But a task that didn’t exist 3 months ago is that of ‘fast engineer. ‘” To learn more about Synopsys, make a stop here.
Watch the full video interview here