Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook warned Tuesday that the technology behind generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots is so powerful and changing so rapidly that governments will find it difficult to regulate it.
“regulation [estatal] It’s going to be difficult to keep up with the pace of advancement of this technology because it’s going so fast,” he stressed.
In this way, companies “must apply their own ethical decisions” beyond the rules established by the states, Tim Cook said in an interview with the ABC station broadcast on Tuesday.
Cook noted that the large language models (LLMs) behind chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing and Google’s Bard are very “promising” but could be a double-edged sword.
“I think it’s very important to be very determined and careful in the development and implementation of these LLMs because being so powerful, we worry about things like misinformation,” said the Apple CEO.
Last week, a group of more than 300 industry experts and researchers, including Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, warned in a letter that the AI poses an “extinction risk” comparable to pandemics or nuclear war. .
Tim Cook confessed, in the interview, that he himself uses ChatGPT and that this technology is something that his company “is looking at closely.”
Regarding AI in general, the top Apple representative recalled that this is a technology that is already integrated into his company’s products, but when people use it they don’t think of “it as AI.”
This week Apple celebrates the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which takes place at its headquarters in Cupertino (USA), presenting several products, of which the most prominent was the “Apple vision Pro”, a set of glasses and headphones. of mixed reality with which users can live virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences.
Source: TSF
