OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has called for "extreme caution" over AI's runaway progress and warned more intervention may be needed to ensure "humans remain in control of the future".
"I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence," he wrote in a blog post entitled "An Alien Mind".
The post comes only a few days after the ChatGPT-maker released its latest model GPT-6 Astra, which it called its most powerful product ever.
It all sounds like that dark sci-fi scenario is emerging for real. Have we already passed the point where we are no longer in charge? And when you look at who is in charge around the world is that a bad thing?
Stalker> is revisiting Colossus The Forbin Project just to refresh the scenario. Interestingly, as western culture sees Terminator-like robotic and A.I. futures, Eastern culture is more relaxed about inanimate things becoming intelligent or having souls. Hard to know what to think these days.
Sci-fi writers have imagined unimaginable A.I. intellects and futures that lie ahead - and we are quickly barreling into our very own unknowable future.