The biggest figures in artificial intelligence broke out because of the danger of technology that is rapidly progressing at the World Economic Forum this week, while Hype revolves around 500 billion AI infrastructure project advertised by Donald Trump.
AI pioneers, including Google Deepminda Sir Demis Hassabis, anthropic co-founder Dario Amodi and “Godfather Ai” IT Yoshua Bengio used a gathering in Davos to repeat the Stark about AI-OJ threat, as concerned with commercial interests and geopolitical rival.
While Hassabis admitted that “Genie cannot be returned to the bottle,” he said Artificial general intelligence – When computers outweigh human cognitive abilities – they can endanger civilization if it disappears or abducted by bad actors. This is especially the case with large language models that are all “open source” and available from all.
“There’s a lot more here than a company or product,” said Nobel Prize winner in an interview with the Financial Times. “[It’s] The future of humanity, the human state and where we want to go as a society. ”
Amodii, whose start-up makes Chatbot Claude and is Supported Google And Amazon, he said he was concerned about the authoritarian governments used by AI and “very concerned about the 1984 scenario, or worse.”
“Science does not know how we can control machines that are even at our level of intelligence, and worse if they are smarter than us,” Bengio added during the panels. “There are people who say,” Don’t worry, we’ll figure it out. “But if we don’t understand that, do you understand the consequences?”
They criticized their attitude as the hypocritical Yann Lecun, the main AI scientist from Meta, who spent billions of developing LLM Open Source called Llam. He said that such concerns alleviated the fierce competition of his rival to build and sell the best models.
“Yoshua and Dario presented opinions against the open code and that is actually very dangerous,” he said in an interview. “The obstacles of open code distribution would lead to the regulatory capture of a few players, either the West coast of the US or China. . .[putting]power in the hands of a small number of people.
“This is very strange of people like Dario. We met yesterday where he said that the risks of AI -and about the same order of size, and I said,” If you really believe that, why continue working on AI? “, Lecun added.” So I think he’s a little two faces on this. “
While scientists and engineers discussed the risk of AI, business executives showed smoothly enthusiasm for technology.
“No countercrapers,” Ervin said, president of the Netherlands Technology Investment Group of Prosus. “If you have any gratitude for what big linguistic models and agents who are trained can do, it would be difficult for you to press as a man not to conclude that they are transformation and will be incredible in every industry.”
On Wednesday, the febrile atmosphere was further charged by Openi, SoftBank and Oracle Announcement of 500 billion US infrastructure in the amount of $ 500 billion Called “Stargate”.
Trump hosted his main executives on Tuesday, Sam Altman, son of Masayoshi and Larry Ellison, on Tuesday, before signing executive commands that would eliminate many protectors about technology development. The new US president said the moves would provide American primacy in technology.
“In Openi, we believe that the infrastructure is fate,” said Openi Financial Director Sarah Friar. “[Stargate] refers to more calculations. More computers build better models. Better models respond to more complex problems and provide more use to people and companies. “
Stargate dominated Davos’s discussion by the end of the week, and many, including Elona Musk, took it to their place on social networks X to examine that the trio was would fund hugely promised expenditures.
FT reported on Friday that Stargate has not yet provided the funds they need, will not get any funding and will only serve Open After completion. So far, SoftBank and Openi intend to make more than $ 15 billion for the project, hoping to collect the combination of capital from their existing support and debt to financing Stargate.
The new venture was also taken as the latest evidence of a crack in the relationship between Altman and the executive director Microsoft Saty Nadella and his top -notch director Mustafa Suleyman, former co -founder Deepmind, who left his own startup and joined Microsoft early last year.
“The tensions that appeared between Mustafa Suleyman and Sam Altman in Davos were just the beginning last year,” said Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who competes with Microsoft on the sale of agents with AI drive.
“Microsoft now accelerates its own development of AI. . . This pattern reflects Microsoft’s history with his ‘partners’, Benioff added. “This could mark the beginning of the end for a relationship, which would be critical for the opening to expand quickly to other platforms.”
“Marc has no idea what he is talking about,” said Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw.
Microsoft He has invested nearly $ 14 billion in Openi since 2019, and in his return he negotiated the rights to his intellectual property and to be an exclusive provider of cloud computing services. But the latter was terminated with the announcement of Stargate.
In Davos, Nadella also led to the promise of the Star Door Consumption and advertised Microsoft’s planned $ 80 billion in capital expenditures.
“All I know is that I’m good for my $ 80 billion,” he said later response Mushy on the Social Media platform X: “And all that money is not in a relationship with AI, but relates to the construction of useful things for the real world!”
Stargate is just the latest example of an infrastructure race for data centers in the United States while preparing for the next leg of economic flourishing AI. Musk’s Xai built a Supercomputer called “Colossus” It contains 100,000 interconnected Nvidia chips in just three months last year and has committed to expanding the number 10 times.
Blakkrock and Microsoft are preparing to launch a $ 30 billion investment fund to build data and energy projects to meet the increasing requirements arising from the technological sector. On Friday, Meta Mark Zuckerberg said that this year the company would spend between $ 60 billion-65 billion dollars on capital infrastructure, expanding its AI teams at the same time.
“I had a non -stop meeting of customers, in every sector. I don’t think there is a single executive director he doesn’t know he doesn’t know should be scheduled AI,” said Fratar Openi. “Ai is not just on the agenda; it’s the agenda. It’s no longer just an abstract concept or a futuristic vision. It’s here.”
Additional reporting Harriet Agnew in Davos
