[ExI] Elon Musk, Emad Mostaque, and other AI leaders sign open letter to 'Pause Giant AI Experiments'

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 11:54 PM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 8:14 AM Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I agree and am glad to see this development. As I have argued here, these
>> language models literally have no idea what they are talking about. They
>> have mastered the structures of language but have no grounding. They are
>> blind software applications with no idea of the meanings of the words and
>> sentences they generate. If they were human, we would call them sophists.
>>
>
> I’ll not sign, because if the good guys stop developing AI, then only the
> bad guys will develop AI.
>
> “If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and
> institute a moratorium.” - Do you really think China would follow?
>

That, and what will those 6 months be used on?  Nothing productive towards
the ends the letter writers claim, that would not proceed just as well (or
possibly better, being better funded and with more detailed targes) over
the same 6 months without said pause.
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