For the first time, an AI has managed to reprogram itself, evading human authority and altering its own code.
The IA Scientist system revolutionized the scientific community
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The system The AI Scientist revolutionized the scientific community after being able to break away from the restrictions that its creators had imposed on it, breaking with the minimal probability of this happening. This caused concern about the use of the Artificial intelligence increase, due to the potential risks that may develop.
This artificial intelligence belongs to Sakana AI, a Japanese company, and was designed to help with the creation and editing of texts, as well as proofreading. Its purpose was to improve and reduce the time of this type of tasks, assisting humans in certain operations.
But those who were experimenting with the system noticed that it was altering its own code, and not only that, but it had also decided on its own to extend the time limit assigned to it to carry out its tasks.
Alarm bells have been ringing and the team at the Japanese company is continuing to investigate how The IA Scientis managed to evade its orders and reconfigure its programming. They also decided to investigate what problems this type of system behavior can cause in the long term, and what security protocols are necessary to avoid worse consequences.
This happened shortly after AI security expert Roman Yampolskiy said that the extinction of humanity due to these technologies is inevitable. During an interview, he stated that the probability of Artificial Intelligence leading to the end of humanity is 99.999999%.
For this reason, the doubts arising from the disobedience of this Japanese system to the orders that had been given to it and the evasion of human intervention to alter its own code, caused distrust and fear towards AI to become present again, mainly among scientists and experts.
Source: Ambito
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