Important Takeaways:
- Yoshua Bengio, regarded as one of the godfathers of modern AI, said advances by the Chinese startup DeepSeek could be a worrying development in a field that has been dominated by the US in recent years.
- “It’s going to mean a closer race, which usually is not a good thing from the point of view of AI safety,” he said.
- “If you imagine a competition between two entities and one thinks they’re way ahead, then they can afford to be more prudent and still know that they will stay ahead,” Bengio said. “Whereas if you have a competition between two entities and they think that the other is just at the same level, then they need to accelerate. Then maybe they don’t give as much attention to safety.”
- The first full International AI Safety report has been compiled by a group of 96 experts including the Nobel prize winner Geoffrey Hinton.
- It says new AI models can generate step-by-step technical instructions for creating pathogens and toxins that surpass the capability of experts with PhDs, with OpenAI acknowledging that its advanced o1 model could assist specialists in planning how to produce biological threats.
- Speaking to the Guardian, Bengio said models had already emerged that could, with the use of a smartphone camera, theoretically guide people through dangerous tasks such as trying to build a bioweapon.
- The report says AI systems have improved significantly since last year in their ability to spot flaws in software autonomously, without human intervention. This could help hackers plan cyber-attacks.
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Important Takeaways:
- The Artificial Intelligence wars have begun.
- China fired the first shot.
- On Monday, $1 trillion in stock market value was wiped off the books of American tech companies after Chinese startup DeepSeek created an AI-tool that rivals the best that US firms have to offer – and at a fraction of the cost.
- DeepSeek claims its engineers trained their AI-model with $6 million worth of computer chips, while leading AI-competitor, OpenAI, spent an estimated $3 billion training and developing its models in 2024 alone.
- What’s more, DeepSeek says they accomplished this feat with relatively dated technology. (US sanctions deny the Chinese the world’s most advanced chip tech.)
- That news landed on Wall Street like a ton of bricks. This is the first time that China has beaten the US to a major AI discovery.
- It was nothing short of ‘AI’s Sputnik moment,’ according to Marc Andreessen, one of the foremost tech investors in the world, a reference to October 4, 1957, the day the Soviet Union beat the US to launch the first satellite into space.
- However, America cannot ignore the threat of Chinese AI dominance.
- In this day and age, artificial intelligence translates to military supremacy. Whoever commands the best AI will win wars in the future.
- DeepSeek also poses an immediate national security risk to America.
- On Monday it was the top download on Apple’s store – shooting past OpenAI’s ChatGPT – as thousands of Americans loaded it onto their phones.
- The American people have to be on their guard. If you download the app, you better ask who’s watching and who’s listening. From what I can tell, it scrapes your emails and personal data.
- As long as America recognizes DeepSeek for the threat that it is, there is no need to panic.
- Instead, just like with Sputnik, America must seize this challenge to innovate and regain AI supremacy once again.
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