Artificial intelligence systems have become so powerful that we no longer know how to test them.

Artificial intelligence systems have become so powerful that we no longer know how to test them.
Artificial intelligence systems have become so powerful that we no longer know how to test them.

Published on September 21, 2024 at 05:30.

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The tank is almost empty. It contained college entrance exams, complex math problems, and of course the famous Turing test. But week after week, ChatGPT and competing systems manage to pass all these exams, with increasingly high scores. Hence the idea, launched this week, to find other ways to judge the progress of ultra-efficient artificial intelligence (AI) services. This race is accelerating, as calls to regulate this technology have multiplied in recent days.

Earlier this week, the Center for AI Safety (CAIS), which has set itself the mission of minimizing the risks caused by AI, in partnership with the start-up Scale AI, launched a call. “Humanity must maintain a good understanding of the capabilities of AI systems. Existing tests have become too easy and we can no longer properly follow the evolution of AI, or know what it lacks to reach the level of an expert,” according to the CAIS, which thus proposed a competition, called “The last exam of humanity”. Its goal: to create “the most difficult AI test in the world.”

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