After the Liberals at the end of the week, Quebec solidaire in turn calls for a parliamentary commission to hear experts on “advances” in artificial intelligence (AI) applications, the best known of which is ChatGPT.
“As elected officials, it is our duty to take a break to reflect collectively on the means we have to understand, anticipate and manage these extremely rapid changes”, hammered Sunday the solidarity critic in Cybersecurity and Digital, Haroun Bouazzi.
The MNA for Maurice-Richard believes that it is necessary “on the one hand, to benefit the common good from the progress in progress”, but that it is also necessary to protect “Quebec society from potential harmful effects”. In his view, the government “often seems caught off guard by technological developments that operate in legal loopholes.”
“What we have experienced with Uber or Airbnb is nothing compared to the major changes that await us due to artificial intelligence. These technologies are developing at a staggering rate. Holding a parliamentary committee as of this session should be a priority”, maintains Mr. Bouazzi.
Earlier, on Friday, the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) had also asked that the Commission de l’économie et du travail “seize a mandate of initiative on the emergence and development of artificial intelligence technology GPT and the upheavals that its advent will bring to the Quebec labor market”.
“We hope for a positive response from the government. Since the arrival of ChatGPT, my curiosity has been piqued. It will be impossible to put the paste back in the toothpaste tube, but as I suggest, it is essential to look at AI and we must put the tags that represent the human ”, had argued the liberal criticism in matters of innovation, Frédéric Beauchemin.
“It’s scary”
It all comes as more than a thousand artificial intelligence (AI) personalities and experts, including Yoshua Bengio and Elon Musk, called for a six-month break from research surrounding these tools this week, judging that they may pose “serious risks to society”.
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Yoshua Bengio
“We have really made extraordinary progress in AI in recent years, said Yoshua Bengio, a Montreal authority considered one of the three godfathers of deep learning based on robots like ChatGPT, during a webinar with journalists. . It’s a huge beneficial potential and it’s scary: I don’t think society is ready to face this power. We must therefore take the time to study, to slow down this commercial race. »
Remember that it was the arrival, last November, of ChatGPT-3.5, a conversational robot that simulates language in an unprecedented way, which was the trigger for this initiative. In the field of artificial intelligence, the recent launch of the even more powerful version 4.0 raises fears of a loss of control of even more powerful AI systems.
THURSDAY, The Press also reported that according to its fabrications, the language model of OpenAI – the company behind ChatGPT – invents crimes and generates defamatory assertions. According to the exchanges, ChatGPT also fabricated a financial scandal involving a popular singer, then a former CAQ MP.
Called to react, the office of the Minister of Cybersecurity and Digital, Éric Caire, had not answered our questions at the time of publishing these lines.