More than 2,600 tech leaders and researchers have signed an open letter urging a temporary pause on artificial intelligence (AI) development, fearing “profound risks to society and humanity.”.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and a host of AI CEOs, CTOs, and researchers are among the signatories to the letter.published by the US think tank Future of Life Institute (FOLI) on March 22.
The institute asked all AI companies to “immediately pause” training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months.sharing the concern that “human-competitive intelligence may pose profound risks to society and humanity,” among other things.
We’re calling on AI labs to temporarily pause training powerful models!
Join FLI’s call alongside Yoshua Bengio, @stevewoz, @harari_yuval, @elonmusk, @GaryMarcus & over a 1000 others who’ve signed: https://t.co/3rJBjDXapc
A short on why we’re calling for this – (1/8)
—Future of Life Institute (@FLIxrisk) March 29, 2023
We ask AI labs to temporarily suspend training of powerful models. Join the FLI call with Yoshua Bengio, @stevewoz, @harari_yuval, @elonmusk, @GaryMarcus and 1,000+ signatories: https://t.co/3rJBjDXapc. A brief explanation of why we ask for this – (1/8)
“Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned and managed with care and resources.”. Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not taking place,” the institute wrote.
GPT-4 is the latest iteration of the artificial intelligence-based OpenAI chatbot, which launched on March 14.. To date, he has passed some of the most rigorous high school and law exams in the United States within the 90th percentile. It is understood that it is 10 times more advanced than the original version of ChatGPT.
There is a “race out of control” among AI companies to develop more powerful AI, which “no one – not even its creators – can reliably understand, predict or control,” says FOLI..
BREAKING: A petition is circulating to PAUSE all major AI developments.
eg No more ChatGPT upgrades & many others.
Signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Stability AI CEO & 1000s of other tech leaders.
Here’s the breakdown: pic.twitter.com/jR4Z3sNdDw
— Lorenzo Green 〰️ (@mrgreen) March 29, 2023
NEWS: A petition is circulating to STOP all major AI development. For example, no more updates to ChatGPT and many others. It is signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, the CEO of Stability AI, and thousands of other technology leaders. This is the breakdown: pic.twitter.com/jR4Z3sNdDw
Among the main concerns are that the machines could flood the information channels, potentially with “propaganda and falsehood” and that the machines “automate” all employment opportunities..
FOLI took these concerns a step further, suggesting that the entrepreneurial efforts of these AI companies may lead to an existential threat:
“Should we develop non-human minds that could eventually outnumber, out-intelligence, out-of-date, and replace us? Should we risk losing control of our civilization?”
“Such decisions should not be delegated to unelected technology leaders,” the letter added..
Having a bit of AI existential angst today
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 26, 2023
Today I have a bit of existential angst about AI
The institute also agreed with a recent statement by OpenAI founder Sam Altman, according to which independent review should be required before training future AI systems.
In his blog on February 24, Altman highlighted the need to prepare for artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI) robots..
However, not all AI experts have been quick to sign the petition. Ben Goertzel, CEO of SingularityNET, explained in a March 29 Twitter reply to Gary Marcus, author of Rebooting.AI, that language learning models (LLMs) will not become AGIs, of which, until the date, there has been little progress.
Instead, said research and development should slow down for things like biological and nuclear weapons:
On the whole, human society will be better off with GPT-5 than GPT-4 — better to have slightly smarter models around. AIs taking human jobs will ultimately be a good thing. The hallucinations and banality will decrease and folks will learn to work around them.
—Ben Goertzel (@bengoertzel) March 29, 2023
In general, human society will be better off with GPT-5 than with GPT-4: it’s better to have slightly smarter models. Ultimately, having AIs fill human jobs will be a positive. Hallucinations and banality will diminish and people will learn to work with them.
In addition to language learning models such as ChatGPT, AI-based deep fake technology has been used to create compelling images, audio and video. The technology has also been used to create AI-generated artwork.which has raised some concerns that it might violate copyright laws in certain cases.
The CEO of Galaxy Digital, Mike Novogratz recently told investors that he was surprised by how much regulatory attention has been paid to cryptocurrencies, while little has been towards artificial intelligence..
“When I think about AI, it amazes me that we are talking so much about cryptocurrency regulation and not AI regulation at all.. I mean, I think the government has it completely backwards,” he opined during a shareholder call on March 28.
FOLI has defended that, In case the AI development pause is not enacted quickly, governments should get involved with a moratorium.
“This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key players. If this pause cannot be implemented quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium,” she wrote.
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