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Kaun Banega Crorepati 15: Amitabh Bachchan expresses fear over AI development, says ‘I am scared of getting replaced’

The latest episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati 15 begins with Fastest Finger First round and Chirag Agarwal takes a hot seat.
He is from Ahmedabad and is studying B Tech.
First question for Rs 1000 is an image based What service does this image represent? A. Taxi, B. Lift, C. Airport, D. Food Counter. He correctly answers option B.

Big B on AI development

After Rs 2000 question, Big B talks about the widespread of AI and asks Chirag if he is also studying.

Chirag shared about his studies and asked Big B, “It was said that AI will take over labour jobs. But now it is seen the people in the creative field are most affected. I feel very lucky to see you in flesh and blood. But someday it might happen that you are not able to shoot and your hologram is being used.”

Big B joked saying, “Let me tell you the truth. This is not me but my hologram.” He then goes on to add, “I am scared, I might be replaced with hologram. In films, such things are happening. We are taken to a room and around 40 cameras rotate around and made to make several expressions by making faces and looking all around. I didn’t know for what but later I learned that they would be used accordingly in my absence. Even if I haven’t given the shot, it will seem that it is me. So I get scared that AI will take our jobs.”

He requested the contestant saying, “Please help me out if I ever go jobless. We get a job with a lot of difficulty.”

Big B asks Chirag if he is popular amongst girls. Chirag says, “My number is in minus. Girls leave me. I get called cute and cuddly. Everyone calls me a panda. Girls don’t like me and I get friend-zoned.”
He takes lifeline for Rs 80,000 question – Which state’s film industry is popularly called ‘Sandalwood’? A. Andhra Pradesh, B. Karnataka, C. Madhya Pradesh, D. Kerala.
With the help of the poll, he correctly answers option B.

Contestant Chirag on getting brother-zoned by girls

Mr Bachchan asks his sister if his brother is saying the truth. She says that indeed he gets brother-zoned. Big B tells him not to lose hope as girls will see him differently after KBC and he should thank the show.
He uses video call a friend lifeline for Rs 1,60,000 question: In which sport was Ding Liren crowned world champion in 2023? A. Chess, B. Snooker, C. Badminton, D. Table Tennis.
He didn’t get any help as his uncle was not sure of the answer. Chirag doesn’t use Double Dip lifeline as he isn’t sure of the answer. Hence, he quits the game and takes home Rs 80,000. Before leaving, he goes for option D but the correct answer is option A.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/kaun-banega-crorepati-15-amitabh-bachchan-expresses-fear-over-ai-development-says-i-am-scared-of-getting-replaced/articleshow/103443683.cms

Google’s search for an AI future as it turns 25

The tech giant Google and I almost share the same birthday… give or take a few years.

Google turns 25 this month (I’ll have a few more candles on my cake) – and finds itself in a tech landscape that has changed dramatically since founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started it in 1998.

Back then Google was only a search engine, and it lived for its first few months in the garage of Susan Wojcicki – the future boss of YouTube.

You do not need me to tell you how well that search engine worked out. It has been 17 years since the word Google officially entered the dictionary. I remember a BBC discussion about whether we should use it as a verb on-air because of its potential to be a free advert for the firm.

That company – now part of a larger parent group called Alphabet – has since diversified into pretty much every area of tech and dominates some of them to an extent which sometimes troubles anti-competition regulators. Right now it is trying to Google itself into pole position in the AI race – but some say it has already fallen behind.

Hits and misses
Email and smartphones, software and hardware, driverless cars, digital assistants, YouTube – Google has spawned (and acquired) hundreds of products and services. Not all of them have worked out.

There are 288 retired projects listed on the Killed by Google website, include gaming platform Stadia and budget VR headset Google Cardboard.

Google vice-president Phil Harrison showed off the Stadia controller on-stage at its launch in 2019

The question now is whether Google can maintain its omnipresence in the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence.

There have been mutterings, including from within, that it has fallen behind. A leaked memo from a Google engineer found its way on to the net, in which he said the firm had no AI “secret sauce” and was not in a position to win the race.

This feeling was further fuelled by the battle of the bots.

What is AI, is it dangerous and what jobs are at risk?
‘Google killer’ ChatGPT sparks AI chatbot race
Google what our chatbot tells you… says Google
For many people, the first time they knowingly interacted with AI – and were impressed by it – came in the form of ChatGPT, the viral AI chatbot which exploded into the world in November 2022.

Its creator OpenAI has received billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft, which is now working it into its own products, including the Bing search engine and Office 365.

ChatGPT has been dubbed the “Google killer” because of the way it can answer a question in one go, rather than serve up pages and pages of search results.

It uses a language-processing architecture called a transformer which was actually invented by Google, but when Google followed up a few months later with its own rival Bard, it had nowhere near the same impact.

Bard was given a surprisingly cautious launch. It was not for under-18s, the tech giant said, and it was described to me as “an experiment” by a senior exec.

Perhaps part of its caution was in part a result of a weird situation which preceded Bard.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66659361

Tata Sons chairman N Chandrasekaran calls for regulating generative AI

In the era of technological advancement, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force that is reshaping industries and societies alike. As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated, the need for regulation has become a pressing concern. N Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, highlighted the importance of regulating generative AI at the B20 Summit curtain raiser event.

“Generative AI has lot to offer. With AI so much can be done in terms of not only business impact but societal impact, however it requires to be regulated in some form,” Chandrasekaran said.
Generative AI, a subset of artificial intelligence, refers to systems that can generate human-like content, including text, images, and even music. Recent advancements in this field, particularly with models like GPT-3 and its successors, have showcased the remarkable capabilities of generative AI. These systems can produce realistic content, simulate human conversation, and even generate creative works of art.

Source: https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/generative-artificial-intelligence-regulations-n-chandrasekaran-ai-17628821.htm

I, ROBOT I’m an AI expert – everyone on earth will DIE unless we stop rapidly developing bots & we should halt development NOW

A TOP AI expert has issued a stark warning over the potential for world extinction that super-smart AI technology could bring.

Eliezer Yudkowsky is a leading AI researcher and he claims that “everyone on the earth will die” unless we shut down the development of superhuman intelligence systems.

Yudkowsky believes superhuman AI will be the death of us all unless we ‘shut it all down’ (stock image)Credit: Getty

The 43-year-old is a co-founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and (MIRI) and claims to know exactly how “horrifically dangerous this technology” is.

He fears that when it comes down to humans versus smarter-than-human intelligence – the result is a “total loss”, he wrote in TIME.

As a metaphor, he says, this would be like a “11th century trying to fight the 21st century”.

In short, humans would lose dramatically.

On March 29, leading experts from OpenAI submitted an open letter called “Pause Giant AI Experiments” that demanded an immediate six month ban in the training of powerful AI systems for six months.

It has been signed by the likes of Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk.

However, the American theorist says he declined to sign this petition as it is “asking for too little to solve it”.

The threat is so great that he argues that extinction by AI should be “considered a priority above preventing a full nuclear exchange”.

He warns that the most likely result of robot science is that we will create “AI that does not do what we want, and does not care for us nor for sentient life in general.”

We are not ready, Yudkowsky admits, to teach AI how to be caring as we “do not currently know how”.

Instead, the stark reality is that in the mind or a robot “you are made of atoms that it can use for something else”.

“If somebody builds a too-powerful AI, under present conditions, I expect that every single member of the human species and all biological life on Earth dies shortly thereafter.”

Yudkowsky is keen to point out that presently “we have no idea how to determine whether AI systems are aware of themselves”.

What this means is that scientists could accidentally create “digital minds which are truly conscious” and then it slips into all kinds of moral dilemmas that conscious beings should have rights and not be owned.

Our ignorance, he implores, will be our downfall.

As researchers don’t know whether they are creating self-aware AI then, he says, “you have no idea what you are doing and that is dangerous and you should stop”.

Yudkowsky claims that it could take us decades to solve the issue of safety in superhuman intelligence – this safety being “not killing literally everyone” – and in that time we could all be dead.

The expert’s central point is this: “We are not prepared. We are not on course to be prepared in any reasonable time window. There is no plan.

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/21909547/ai-expert-stop-bots-halt-development-now/?utm_campaign=native_share&utm_source=sharebar_native&utm_medium=sharebar_native