马斯克：中国有很强人工智能 下决定一定能做好
2023-7-6 06:00 AM| 发布者: 常喜
特斯拉执行长马斯克。（路透）
2023世界人工智慧大会（WAIC）6日正式开幕。特斯拉执行长马斯克于会上表示，特斯拉非常有兴趣将自己的自动驾驶技术与其他汽车制造商进行分享，这个技术是超越时代的，而且会让汽车使用率大大增加。并称，“中国一旦下定决定要做一件事情，就一定能做好”。
综合澎湃新闻、财联社报道，2023世界人工智能大会（WAIC）于7月6日至8日在上海世博中心及世博展览馆举行。马斯克6日“现身”大会畅谈人形机器人Optimus、自动驾驶及人工智慧等高科技相关议题。他指出，未来地球上机器人数量将会多于人类数量，“特斯拉非常有兴趣将自己的自动驾驶技术与其他汽车制造商进行分享，这个技术是超越时代的，而且会让汽车使用率大大增加”。
此外，对于当前特斯拉自动驾驶的进度，马斯克认为，随著人工智慧技术的快速发展，已经非常接近没有人类干预的全自动驾驶状态，“我们已经在美国的道路上测试了，现在很少会需要人工干预了，这是一个预测。”他进一步表示预计在大概今年年末，就有可能实现全面自动驾驶。“我觉得要实现全自动驾驶或者说这种4至5级的全自动驾驶，这个阶段大概就今年晚一点时候就能实现。我以前也做过预测都错了，但是我觉得此刻做的预测比以往任何时候更接近于现实。”
另外，马斯克还谈及中国称，“中国一旦下定决定要做一件事情，就一定能做好，各个产业都是这样，包括人工智慧，相信中国会有很强的人工智慧能力”。
据悉，2023世界人工智能大会（WAIC）已是上海连续第六年举办世界人工智慧大会，而本届大会以“智联世界生成未来”为主题，由上海市政府和国家发改委、工信部、科技部、国家网信办、中国科学院、中国工程院、中国科协等7个部门共同主办。
Elon Musk says he has faith in China’s ability to develop AI
- ‘China is going to be great at anything it puts its mind into. That includes … artificial intelligence,’ Musk told the World AI Conference via video
US billionaire Elon Musk said he has confidence in China’s capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, but did not address the impact of Washington’s semiconductor export restrictions that have hobbled China’s ability to develop AI.
“I think, really, China is going to be great at anything it puts its mind into. That includes many different sectors – sectors of the economy, but also artificial intelligence,” Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, told the World AI Conference (WAIC), an annual event hosted by Chinese authorities to showcase Beijing’s ambitions in the technology, via video.
Musk did not directly mention US export restrictions in his remarks, which were delivered via an eight-minute video shown at the WAIC on Thursday.
Musk’s show of support comes at a time when the US government is reportedly considering further restrictions on China’s access to US semiconductors and cloud computing services, which could cripple the country’s AI development. Separately, the Biden administration is also working on a plan to limit US investments into Chinese AI, Paul Rosen, a US Treasury official, told a hearing in May.
Musk has maintained a good relationship with the Chinese government. During a visit to China in May, he was received by a number of senior Chinese officials, including foreign minister Qin Gang. Musk’s opposition to “decoupling” between the world’s two biggest economies, which were included in an official Chinese statement, echoed Beijing’s long-standing stance and were widely picked up in China.
In his video speech on Thursday, Musk talked about robots and autonomous driving. “As time goes by, it seems like, it may, at some point, exceed one to one ratio, in more robots than humans, and potentially much greater,” Musk said. “It’s a very profound change and I think we need to be careful about it to make sure it is something that benefits humanity.”
Musk stressed that Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus is designed to supplement, not replace, humans. “Optimus is intended to be helpful in human-like tasks. It is not meant to have great intelligence, but it is meant to have sufficient intelligence to do boring, repetitive or dangerous tasks that humans would much prefer not to do.”
He also expressed his concerns about deep intelligence. “I do think we should be very careful with development of, especially artificial general intelligence, or very deep intelligence,” said Musk. “Artificial general intelligence is a computer intelligence that is smarter than all humans at everything … that is something we should be concerned about,” he said, adding that “it’s important to have some sort of regulatory oversight” for the area.
On autonomous driving, Musk said Tesla is likely to achieve “full self-driving in what you call [level] 4 or 5 later this year”, meaning humans can be hands-free on the steering wheel. “I think I’ve been wrong about this prediction in the past, but we’re closer to it,” he said.
Tesla is the subject of several law suits in the US, where consumers are suing the company for misleading them on the level of its “full self driving” capability.
Musk was the highest-profile foreign speaker featured in the opening ceremony. His video speech was followed by other executives from Chinese Big Tech companies, including Chinese AI specialist SenseTime and telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co – both under US trade sanctions.
Tracy Qu is a Shanghai based technology reporter at the Post. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a master’s degree in journalism.
Ann Cao is a Shanghai-based technology reporter for the Post, covering technology start-ups and policies in the city and eastern China. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a master's degree in journalism.
