Artificial intelligence as human, experts: 'It is already here'
Experts predict a gradual evolution of artificial intelligence towards capabilities similar - or superior - to human ones
by Lorenzo Pace
Artificial intelligence would have equalled, if not already surpassed, human capabilities in several areas. This is what some of the world's leading players in the field claim. The Financial Times calls them the 'fathers' of this technology. And they are the head of Nvidia Jensen Huang, Meta's Ai chief Yann LeCun, and computer scientists Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Bill Dally.
They said this at the British newspaper's Future of Ai summit after being awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
The words of Nvidia's CEO
'For the first time,' Huang said, 'Ai is an intelligence that empowers people, tackles work, performs tasks. We already have enough general intelligence to turn the technology into a huge amount of useful applications for society in the coming years. And we are already doing that today'.
General Artificial Intelligence
The goal will be to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (Agi), capable of learning and applying what it has learnt to perform any intellectual task that a human being can perform.
"It will not be a one-off moment, because the capabilities will gradually expand in different areas," LeCun said of Meta. "We are already there," Huang replied, "but it doesn't matter, because it is more of an academic issue at this point.
