Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook warned Tuesday that the technology behind generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots is so powerful and changing so quickly that governments will find it difficult to regulate.
“The Ordinance [estatal] it will be difficult to keep up with the progress of this technology because it moves very fast,” he stressed.
In this way, companies must “apply their own ethical decisions” beyond the rules set by the states, Tim Cook pointed out in an interview with the ABC station released this Tuesday.
Cook pointed out that the language models (LLM, large language models) behind “chatbots” like 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 this LLM because we are so powerful and concerned about things like misinformation,” Apple’s CEO stressed.
Last week, a group of more than 300 industry experts and researchers, including Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, warned in a letter that AI represents an “extinction risk” that comparable to pandemics or nuclear war. .
Tim Cook confessed in the interview that he uses ChatGPT himself and that this technology is something his company “analyzes closely”.
With regard to AI in general, Apple’s top rep reminded that this is a technology that is already built into his company’s products, but that when people use it, they don’t think of “it as AI.”
This week, Apple is celebrating the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), taking place at its headquarters in Cupertino (USA), with the company showcasing several products, the most notable of which was the “Apple vision Pro”, a pair of mixed reality glasses and headphones that users can experience virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) experiences.
Source: DN
