and the dangers of biased data setsbut those concerns have grown recently leading bengio to join other computer scientists and tech business leaders like elon musk and apple cofounder steve wozniak in calling for a sixmonth pause on developing ai systems more powerful than openais latest model gpt4bengio said wednesday he believes the latest ai language models already pass the turing test named after british codebreaker and ai pioneer alan turings method introduced in 1950 to measure when ai becomes indistinguishable from a human at least on the surfacethats a milestone that can have drastic consequences if were not careful bengio said my main concern is how they can be exploited for nefarious purposes to destabilize democracies for cyber attacks disinformation you can have a conversation with these systems and think that youre interacting with a human theyre difficult to spotwhere researchers are less likely to agree is on how current ai language systems which have many limitations including a tendency to fabricate information will actually get smarter than humansaidan gomez was one of the coauthors of the pioneering 2017 paper that introduced a socalled transformer technique the t at the end of chatgpt for improving the performance of machinelearning systems especially in how they learn from passages of text then just a 20yearold intern at google gomez remembers laying on a couch at the companys california headquarters when his team sent out the paper around 3 am when it was dueaidan this is going to be so huge he remembers a colleague telling him of the work thats since helped lead to new systems that can generate humanlike prose and imagerysix years later and now ceo of his own ai company cohere gomez is enthused about the potential applications of these systems but bothered by fearmongering he says is detached from the reality of their true capabilities and relies on extraordinary leaps of imagination and reasoningthe notion that these models are somehow gonna get access to our nuclear weapons and launch some sort of extinctionlevel event is not a productive discourse to have gomez said its harmful to those real pragmatic policy efforts that are trying to do something good