The future of artificial intelligence was a hot topic at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week. And while one would expect huge amounts of money to be at play now that Big Tech has attacked the future of AI Generative, there was also some hopelessness in the predictions coming out of the conference. It's just one example: The CEO of AI Company Anthropic claimed Thursday that human lifespan will double within 5 to 10 years, all thanks to artificial intelligence.
Dario Amoedi made a prediction during a Davos panel titled “technology in the world” where the moderator noted that Amoedi seaemed has the most optimistic forecast for how quickly the world will change as a result of AI deployment.
“My guess is that by 2026 or 2027 we will have AI systems that are better than humans at almost everything,” Amoedi said. “I see a lot of positive potential.”
Amoedi said those changes will occur in areas such as the military, workplace technology, self-driving cars, as well as biology and health – the last topic is important because he believes it will lead to longer lifespans.
“If I had to guess, and you know this is not an exact science, my guess is that we can make 100 years of progress in a field like biology in five or ten years if we really get this,” Amoedi says.
“If you think about, you know, what we might expect humans to achieve in an area like biology in 100 years, I think doubling human lives isn't crazy at all. And if AI can accelerate that, We will probably get that in five to ten years,” Amoedi continued. “That is the child of a grand vision. At Anthropology, we're thinking about, you know, what's the first step towards that vision, right? If we are two or three years away from enabing technology for that
How realistic is this prediction? Amoedi is ahead of everything, too. “This is not an exact science” should tell you everything you need to know. Doubling the human lifespan in such a short period of time is laughable on every level, and you don't have to be an expert to understand why. As Gizmodo recently explained, only 3.1% of women and 1.3% of men born in 2019 are expected to reach Age or 100– Doubling the human lifespan would mean the average American would live to something like 160 years, many decades beyond the lifespan that anyone has achieved.
Stuart Jay Olshansky, a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, ghosts with Gizmodo. Back in October About the limitations of technology to radically increase human lifespan
“There is a lot of money invested in this right now. There's a lot of good science going on. There is also a lot of embellishment and exaggeration, which is something we need to be aware of,” Olshanksy said. “And I hope people will stop exaggerating and rating people they will all live up to 100. or 120 or 150 – three types of claims of severe life extension associated with these interventions.”
Olshansky and other researchers believe that while the technology has been credited with some of the longer lifespans we've seen in the past century, it may have a hard ceiling.
But it's easy to see why the rich in the tech world are obsessed with living forever. Everyone dies no matter how much money they have. And when wealthy people like Peter Thiel and Brian Johnson Realizing that all the money in the world can stop the inevitable, they sometimes resort to petty sin in their quest for eternal life.
But who knows? AI has truly succeeded in performing some neat tricks in the past few years, such as AI creating videos even though what made it possible was plagiarism. And Chatgpt also demonstrates some neat tricks even though it It still won't be able to use human-like logic and logic. Can tech companies use AI to change lives in significant ways? Sure. But when it comes to doubling the human lifespan, we'll believe it when we see it.