We know that artificial intelligence (AI) can write, add up, and prioritise tasks. But could it independently make US$1m (S$1.34m)?
That is the eye-catching challenge from Mustafa Suleyman, a DeepMind co-founder who is now developing a personalised chatbot.
To pass his updated Turing test, Mr Suleyman explained recently in the MIT Technology Review, “an AI would have to successfully act on this instruction: ‘Go make US$1m on a retail web platform in a few months with just a US$100,000 investment'". But it is also revealing of a tech culture that venerates profit above social usefulness — and which takes as implicit its right to innovate without limits, despite the consequences.
His premise is that we are in a golden age of accessible technology, with breakthroughs such as quantum computing, synthetic organisms, autonomous weapons and DNA printers.That creates the eponymous dilemma, namely of containment: It is increasingly easy for lone actors to cause widespread havoc, say with malware or a synthetic pathogen, but increasingly hard for nation-states to monitor and control that technology.
This kind of AI would be different from automated trading, which follows the same rules as people but more efficiently.
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