A sentient and malicious AI, neither for today nor for tomorrow
- In the new adaptation of Mission: Impossible, Ethan Hunt faces off against a “sentient” artificial intelligence capable of infiltrating even the most secure computer systems, manipulating information, affecting the future and reversing the global geopolitical balance.
- The major international powers are looking for the keys that will allow them to control this artificial intelligence. For his part, Ethan Hunt realized that in order to save the world, it must be destroyed.
- The film navigates science fiction fantasy away from the reality of today’s artificial intelligence.
Don’t panic, A.J Artificial intelligence Autonomy is not about corporate control. Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1, which hits theaters on Wednesday, July 12, brings a new type of villain: a sentient artificial intelligence called the Entity. It is a virus that enters even the most secure computer systems, particularly those of the intelligence services, and can endanger already fragile geopolitical balances through information manipulation.
The result: hundreds of US intelligence agents transcribe the most sensitive documents on a typewriter to leave no traces on the Internet. The real race against time begins to control this virtual enemy – thanks to two interlocking switches – and prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.
“Artificial intelligence is less sensitive than mice”
post opus Mission Impossible It explores the futuristic fantasy held by some tech proponents Silicon Valley. If generative AI systems are hacked at the end of 2022 with chatAnd Medjourney Or ElevenLabs has brought the hypothesis of a technological singularity back to the fore, a “sentient” machine—one that has the ability to subjectively perceive its environment—is irrelevant. Moreover, the term AI itself is vulgar.
“We have to stop thinking that these machines are magically super-intelligent. These are the projections on the machine. We’ve successfully deified what we don’t understand, and that’s why school has to play its part,” lamented Lawrence Devillers, a researcher at CNRS and professor of artificial intelligence at UCLA. Sorbonne and member of CNPEN (Comité National Digital Ethics Pilot) last April about OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It’s statistical mechanical talk, without awareness or intent.” And it is not Yan to bethe Pope of Artificial Intelligence, Turing Award winner and Vice President in Charge of Artificial Intelligence at Meta (FB) which contradicts it on this point. He explains that no AI has been his hobby for years.
“The most successful AIs have less common sense than rats,” he told FM in 2018. Yes, AI has made a leap in the last five years, but not to the point of taking its independence and turning against humans as depicted in the blockbuster movies it carries. Tom Cruise. Gifted with a conscience and guided by the survival instinct, the entity thwarts all of Ethan Hunt’s attempts to destroy it. Omniscient, she is even able to anticipate her own actions.
“There are people everywhere.”
Indeed, “we haven’t really defined what the consciousness of machines can be…we have to do it, Below it is the line of Antoine Bourdais, Director of Artificial Intelligence at Meta, on the occasion of the first Cannes International Festival of Artificial Intelligence in April 2022. In the meantime, we are creating regulatory frameworks to define its use, the data on which it is based and the applications we use have the right to use it. And an artificial intelligence that will be so smart that it will be able to push its limits in a subtle way and manage to separate us in order to keep in touch … This is a theory that is exactly science fiction. He would like to defend himself from separation in the name of survival instinct… That sounds very fanciful to me. »
Abstract three-quarters plot Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning falling off. But behind its grandiose screenplay, the opus demonstrates in an appropriate way the idea that behind a malicious machine hides above all a malicious human being. Who is in charge? Certainly not the machine. The machine is nothing. It is trained on data by humans, explained, evaluated, and made available to others. “There are humans everywhere,” insisted Lawrence Devillers about generative AI. Ethan Hunt is well aware of that. He makes it his mission He forbade anyone from controlling the entity, convinced that there was no man or woman capable of assuming such power.Finally, the main enemy of humanity is none other than the humans themselves.
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