As part of a lawsuit against OpenAI, billionaire Elon Musk has asked a court to determine whether GPT-4 is an artificial general intelligence, capable of human-level tasks
Elon Musk has asked a court to settle the question of whether GPT-4 is an artificial general intelligence , as part of a, is one of the leading goals of the field, but experts say the idea of a judge deciding whether GPT-4 qualifies is “impractical”.Musk was one of the founders of OpenAI in 2015, but he left it in February 2018, reportedly over a dispute about the firm changing from a non-profit to a capped-profit model.
But can a judge decide when AGI has been achieved? “I think it’s impractical in the general sense, since AGI has no accepted definition and is something of a made-up term,” says“Whether OpenAI has achieved AGI is at its very best hotly debated between those who decide on scientific facts,” saysat De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. “It seems unusual to me for a court to be able to establish a scientific truth.”Such a ruling wouldn’t be legally impossible, however.
Regardless of the rationale behind it, the lawsuit puts OpenAI in an unenviable position. CEO Sam Altman has made it clear that the firm intends to build an AGI and “It’s in OpenAI’s interests to constantly imply their tools are getting better and closer to doing this, because it keeps attention on them, headlines flowing and so on,” says Cook. But now it may need to argue the opposite.
Even if the court relied on expert views, any judge would struggle to rule in Musk’s favour at best – or to unpick the differing viewpoints over the hotly disputed topic of when an AI constitutes an AGI. “Most of the scientific community currently would say AGI has not been achieved,” says Boiten, that is “if the concept of AGI is even considered meaningful or precise enough”.
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