Artificial Intelligence (AI) likely impact various aspects of our lives and the world. Notably, the generative AI like ChatGPT has penetrated work and study. Can AI be so capable that it can make sense? To explore this, we need to understand how humans and AI think when a task is assigned to them. When you ask a human to do a task like bring a medicine from a pharmacy, they will not consider it as their mission or purpose. This means they won’t kill a pharmacist to get a medicine. However, the problem with AI is that it is given a fixed objective. The algorithm wants the scientist to clearly define the objective. For example, if you want AI to resolve acidification of the ocean it might do this with a catalytic reaction with extreme efficiency but it would consume so much oxygen that humans will die. Some might argue that we can specify to AI that be careful about oxygen in the environment and also other things like aquatic animals, seaweed, and so on. We have seen this in many movies like Clouding with a Chance of Meatballs or Age of Ultron. However, humans often know that they do…
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