{"id":187451,"date":"2024-04-15T22:23:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T03:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/mistral-ceo-says-ai-companies-are-trying-to-build-god"},"modified":"2024-04-15T22:23:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T03:23:39","slug":"mistral-ceo-says-ai-companies-are-trying-to-build-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/mistral-ceo-says-ai-companies-are-trying-to-build-god","title":{"rendered":"Mistral CEO Says AI Companies Are Trying to Build God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mistral-ceo-says-ai-companies-are-trying-to-build-god2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The CEO of Europe\u2019s brightest new AI firm is calling bull on the quest for so-called \u201cartificial general intelligence\u201d (AGI), which he says is akin to the desire to create God.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/12\/business\/artificial-intelligence-mistral-france-europe.html?unlocked_article_code=1.j00.G8zX.lqukAsOFhspc&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;ugrp=c\" class=\"\">interview with the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, Arthur Mensch, the CEO of the AI firm Mistral, sounded off on his fellow AI executives\u2019 \u201cvery religious\u201d obsession with building AGI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe whole AGI rhetoric is about creating God,\u201d the Mistral CEO told the newspaper. \u201cI don\u2019t believe in God. I\u2019m a strong atheist. So I don\u2019t believe in AGI.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Europe\u2019s brightest new AI firm is calling bull on the quest for so-called \u201cartificial general intelligence\u201d (AGI), which he says is akin to the desire to create God. In an interview with the New York Times, Arthur Mensch, the CEO of the AI firm Mistral, sounded off on his fellow AI executives\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}