In the middle of the golden era of artificial intelligence, when it seems that the entire planet is focused on how to advance faster with this technology, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and one of the most influential voices in the development of models such as Chatgpt, has surprised to propose a change of radical approach.
«We should stop,» he said in his X account. And anyone says it, he affirms who leads one of the most influential laboratories in this career. His statement, published on social networks, has generated a debate at least interesting.
Are you really asking to slow the development of AI? Not quite. What Altman suggests is something more subtle, but just as provocative, stop looking alone at AI as the absolute future of technology.
Sam Altman’s call to look beyond AI
The AGI, an AI that reason, learns and acts with a level of autonomy and comprehension comparable to the human, has been the Holy Grail of companies such as OpenAi, Deepmind or Anthropic. In fact, many inside and outside Silicon Valley have focused their predictions on trying when this «Almighty» will come. However, Altman has put the brake. Literally.
«I think we should stop discussing what year the general artificial intelligence and Start discussing when the first self -replicating spacecraft will take off«said the OpenAi CEO in his social network X.
The idea of space probes capable of replicating themselves is not new, although today it takes strength again thanks to the AI rise. British physicist Zaza Osmanov already raised at the time as an intriguing as disturbing, that of probes driven by AI, created by advanced civilizations, which were already exploring our solar system, according to MysteryPlanet.
In your research, Osmanov suggests that these probes could completely avoid our current detection systems due to its tiny size and autonomous behavior. In other words, they could be among us, and we wouldn’t even know.
Other experts in the aerospace sphere have supported similar ideas. One of them is Robert Zubrin, known for his work on interplanetary exploration.
Zubrin defends that self -replicating probes, being able to build replicas of themselves using materials available in asteroids or planets, They would be an extremely efficient solution to expand the scope of a civilization beyond its origin planet.
In theory, this would allow an exponential galactic exploration without direct human intervention, reducing costs and risks, and accelerating our arrival to still unattainable places.
But, of course, not everyone looks good this approach. While we are still trying to understand and control the development of general artificial intelligence (AGI), talk about the applied to probes capable of multiplying autonomously seems, for many, premature.
Criticisms have not been expected, since some point out the huge ethical and technical challenges that would imply letting such a technology work without supervision. Others alert about the risks of an self -replicating system that may lose control or modify alien ecosystems without knowing the consequences.
What is clear is that the reflection launched by Sam Altman has stirred the panorama. His proposal to momentarily leave the race towards AGI to imagine more ambitious technologies, such as self -replicating ships, not only points to new scientific horizons, but also invites you to think about a future that, until now, seemed exclusive to science fiction.
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