Artificial intelligence is advancing at a rapid pace, but it is still premature to claim that technology will completely displace humans. This opinion was expressed by Renat Tukanov, Chief Technology Officer of Freedom Holding and head of Freedom AI, in Ruslan Shayekin's podcast "101+ Friend of Shayekin," according to infohub.kz.
During the conversation, the host raised one of the most discussed topics of recent years — the potential job losses due to the development of artificial intelligence. In particular, he recalled statements that AI would soon be able to replace programmers.
Tukanov disagreed with such a framing. In his view, before discussing the replacement of humans by technology, one should define what exactly is meant by artificial intelligence and which human abilities it can replicate.
"No, the question is posed incorrectly. They won't replace us. There are many issues that need to be resolved, and we need to understand what is actually happening," he said.
As an example, the head of Freedom AI cited the automotive industry, where robots have long performed some production operations. However, such automation, he said, should not be automatically equated with the emergence of intelligence comparable to human intelligence.
Tukanov explained that human intelligence cannot be viewed as a single ability. It includes many different skills, including interaction with others, spatial orientation, and performing complex actions that require high precision.
The specialist identified as a separate problem people's tendency to attribute human qualities to artificial intelligence. According to his observations, society's ideas about technological development are largely shaped by science fiction films, including "The Terminator" and "The Matrix."
"We almost always anthropomorphize artificial intelligence, as if it has consciousness," Tukanov noted.
He emphasized that the mechanisms of human consciousness and brain function are still not fully understood. Therefore, attempts to create technology capable of fully reproducing human thinking face fundamental questions.
Speaking about modern language models, Tukanov highlighted their ability to work with text and generate speech. According to him, developers have trained such systems on vast amounts of information, thanks to which the algorithms have learned to predict word sequences.
"Trillions of texts were loaded into these models, and they have become good at predicting the next word. That is what we have managed to do so far," he explained.
Tukanov also referred to artificial intelligence researcher Yann LeCun, who is called one of the founders of modern machine learning technologies.
According to the head of Freedom AI, it is important to distinguish between existing systems and the so-called superintelligence, which is often depicted in science fiction. It is precisely the confusion of these concepts, in his opinion, that hinders an objective assessment of the real capabilities of technology.
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