On Thursday night, Oprah Winfrey aired a special on artificial intelligence called "Artificial Intelligence and Our Future." Guests included OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, tech influencer Mark Brownlee, and current FBI Director Christopher Weiss.

The dominant tone is skepticism and caution. The notes prepared by Oprah noted that the AI ​​genius is outside the bottle, better or for worse, and that humanity would have to learn to live with consequences. "Ai is still out of our control and mostly  Our understanding," she said. "But it's here, and we're going to live among technologies that can be our allies or rivals.We're the most adaptable creatures on the planet. We'll adapt again. But keep track of what's real. The effort could not be bigger. "

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Altman, Oprah's first interview at night, expressed a questionable thing that today's AI has to learn the concepts in the data where it is trained. "We showed the system a thousand words in a row and asked it to predict what would happen next," he told Oprah. "The system learns the predictions and then learns the underlying concepts."

Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT and o1, launched by OpenAI on Thursday, can actually predict the most likely next word in a sentence. But they're just statistical machines they learn patterns in data. They have no intentions; they are just making educated guesses. Although Altman can exaggerate the function of today's AI system, he emphasized how to do the importance of security testing of these same systems.

He said, "The first thing we need to do nu happens  the government starts to start figuring out how to test these systems that we do for aircraft or new drugs." "Personally, I probably have a conversation with someone in the government every few days."

Altman's push for regulation may be self-interested. OpenAI has opposed the California AI security law known as SB 1047, saying it will "stifle innovation." However, former OpenAI employees and AI experts such as Geoffrey Hinton have come out in support of the bill, arguing that it would impose necessary safeguards on AI development. Oprah also asked Altman about his role as head of OpenAI. She asked why people should trust him, and he mostly dodged the question, saying that his company had worked over time to build trust. In the past, Altman said very exactly that people should not trust him or someone to ensure that Ai benefits from the world.

As the news names suggested, the Open's CEO later said he heard Oprah asked him if he was "the most powerful and dangerous person in the world" that was strange. He disagreed, but said he felt responsible for pushing AI in a positive direction for humanity.

Oprah on deep fakes

As should happen in an AI special, the topic of deep fakes was brought up. To demonstrate how convincing synthetic media is becoming, Brownlee compared sample footage from Sora, OpenAI’s AI-powered video generator, to AI-generated footage from a months-old AI system. The Sora sample was miles ahead  illustrating the field’s rapid progress. "You can still look at some of it now and see that something's not quite right," Brownlee said of Sol's footage. Oprah said she thought it was real. The deepfakes showcase was a continuation of an interview with Wray, who recounted the moment he first became familiar with AI deepfake technology.

"I was in a conference room and a bunch of [FBI] people came together to show me how to create AI-enhanced deepfakes," Wray said. "They made a video of me saying things I've never said before and never will."

Ray discussed the growing prevalence of AI-assisted extortion. From 2022 to 2023, the number of extortion cases increased by 178%, in part due to artificial intelligence technologies, according to the cybersecurity company ESET. "There are people posing as peers to target teenagers and then using [AI-generated] compromising photos to convince kids to send real photos in return," Ray said, "It was actually someone behind a keyboard in Nigeria and then they got.hold the pictures, They threaten to blackmail the child and say if you don't pay we will share these pictures which will ruin your life.

Wei also addressed misinformation surrounding the upcoming US presidential election. He argued that "now is not the time to panic," but stressed that "everyone in America" ​​has a responsibility to "increase due diligence and caution" in the use of artificial intelligence and remember that artificial intelligence "can be used by bad people." actors against all of us."

"We often find that people on social media who look like Bill from Topeka or Mary from Dayton are actually Russian or Chinese intelligence officers in Beijing or the suburbs of Moscow," Wray said.

In fact, a Statistician survey found that by the end of 2023, more than one-third of U.S. respondents had seen misleading messages or perceived misleading information about key topics. This year, AI-generated misleading photos of Vice President candidate Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump received millions of views on social networks, including X.