Gerd Leonhard

April 11, 2023

AI Risks


AIs are particularly good at mimicking the kind of intelligence that takes years to develop in humans. When a human scholar is able to introduce an obscure 17th-century artist or write new music in an almost forgotten renaissance tonal structure, we have good reason to be impressed. We know it took years of study to develop that depth of knowledge. When an AI does these same things with only a few months of training, the results can be dazzlingly precise and correct, but something is missing.