Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence ”Mihai Drăgănescu”, Romanian Academy
Abstract
The unprecedented results obtained by Artificial Intelligence research and developments generated enthusiasm but also some worries about the balance among humans and intelligent agents. The huge impact of generative AI, particularly ChatGPT, raised ethics worries about observing IPR regulations, even addressing protection of the human rights. The ecologists also warned about the impact on the nature due to the creation of larger and larger language models.
The history of science taught us that any new and powerful technology comes with risks and opportunities and was met with reservations or denials, growling protests etc. What we see today on the AI canvas is a mixture of acclamations and apocalyptic warnings. AI has the potential to fundamentally transform human experience, offering huge benefits to humanity but also presents risks, which, ignored or mismanaged, can generate imbalances and destructive tensions!
This justifies the intense concern on this issue by international bodies, national or regional authorities, the media or many NGOs around the world, of the majority of people.
Short Bio
Dan Tufiș received his BS (1979) and PhD (1992) from the University Politehnica of Bucharest, the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers. He is a full member of the Romanian Academy and was the Director of the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Drăgănescu” of the Romanian Academy, since 2002. Dan Tufiș, published more than 300 scientific papers (books, book chapters, journal and conference papers) and delivered more than 90 invited talk all over the world. He coordinated or participated in more than 80 international and national research projects. He received various distinctions and prizes for his research throughout his career (the highest presidential order “Steaua României”, the ”Nicolae Milescu Spataru Medal, awarded by the Academy of Republic of Moldova, Doctor Honoris Causa of the University Agora of Oradea, Honorary professor of the University “A.I. Cuza” of Iași,etc.). He is a member of the Editorial Boards of several international journals. His research interests include natural language processing, machine translation, corpus linguistics, semantic web.