Three years ago, The company forced Timnit GebruThe co-leader of his ethical AI team, mainly on an article that has raised concerns about the dangers of large-language models. Gebru’s concerns have since become current. His departure and his impact marked a turning point in the conversation on the dangers of uncontrolled AI. We could hope that Google learned; of her.
And then, last week, Geoffrey Hinton announced that he was withdrawing from Google, in large part, it would therefore be free to Ring the alarm bell on the disastrous consequences of rapid progress in AI That he fears could soon allow him to go beyond human intelligence. (Or, as Hinton said, it’s “Completely conceivable that humanity is only a phase of passage in the evolution of intelligence. “)
And therefore, E / S yesterday was far from the event in 2018, when the company demonstrated duplexShowing how Google Assistant could make automated calls to small businesses without ever letting people know about these calls they interacted with an AI. It was an incredible demo. And whoever made a lot of people deeply uncomfortable.
Really, this year’s IS / O, we have heard of responsibility. James Manyika, who runs the company’s Technology and Society program, opened its doors by speaking wonders that AI worked, especially around protein folding, but was quick to move on to the way in which The company reflects on disinformation, noting how it would be the watermark of images and alluding to the railing to prevent their abusive use.
There was a demo of the way Google can deploy the origin of the image to counter disinformation, effectively demystify an image search by showing it the first time (in the example on stage, A false photo pretending to show that the landing of the moon was a hoax) was indexed. It was a bit of earth in the middle of all fear and wonder, operating on a large scale.
And then … on phones. The new Fold Google Pixel has marked the greatest line of applause of the day. People love gadgets.
The phone can fall back, but for me, it was among the least heartbreaking things I saw all day. And in my head, I continued to return to one of the first examples that we saw: a Photo of a woman standing in front of a few hills and a waterfall.
Magic Editor has erased his backpack strap. Cool! And that also made the cloudy sky much more blue. Strengthen this, in another example – this time with a child sitting on a bench holding balloons – the magic publisher again made the day brighter, then adjusted all the lighting of the photos so that the sun is more natural . More real than real.
How far do we want to go here? What is the final goal we are aiming for? In the end, are we just jumping the holidays and generating pretty pretty photos? Can we supplant our memories with sunny and more idealized versions of the past? Have we improved reality? Is everything more beautiful? Is everything better? Is everything very, very cool? Or something else? Something we haven’t done yet?