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

[Gordon Swobe]

I think ChatGPT caught most people in the world by surprise. It should give
us pause to think. This is actually why I returned to Exi after something
like 15 years.  Things are getting real.

-gts





On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 12:11 AM Gordon Swobe <gordon.swobe at gmail.com>
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.
>
> From the letter:
>
> --
> Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general
> tasks,[3] and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our
> information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away
> all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman
> minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us?
> Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not
> be delegated to unelected tech leaders. Powerful AI systems should be
> developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive
> and their risks will be manageable. This confidence must be well justified
> and increase with the magnitude of a system's potential effects. OpenAI's
> recent statement regarding artificial general intelligence, states that "At
> some point, it may be important to get independent review before starting
> to train future systems, and for the most advanced efforts to agree to
> limit the rate of growth of compute used for creating new models." We
> agree. That point is now.
>
>
> Therefore, we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6
> months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This pause
> should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a
> pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a
> moratorium.
> --
> https://twitter.com/SmokeAwayyy/status/1640906401408225280?s=20
>
> -gts
>
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