The head of Canadian artificial intelligence darling Cohere says the technology is not bound to exceed human capabilities any time soon and if it does, he’s skeptical any sci-fi like scenarios will arise.
“I’m of the opinion that it’s going to take us a while to exceed human capabilities uniformly,” Gomez said. Gomez described himself as “more skeptical about the bad, the doomsday scenarios and the fear mongering, the ‘Terminator’ style narratives” — a reference to the 1984 film, where a cyborg assassin from the future targets a woman whose unborn son will lead the human resistance against a machine-led uprising.
Gomez’s remarks come as AI continues to be a hot topic with companies looking at how to better use the tool to bring efficiencies to their business and countries considering whether the technology will have unintended consequences they must prepare for. Later, he co-founded Cohere, which develops AI for enterprise use, meaning it helps businesses build powerful applications by using large language models — algorithms that use massive data sets to recognize, translate, predict or generate text and other content.