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

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 2:32 PM Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Is there any debate that AI development and deployment needs regulatory
> oversight?
>

Yes, just like for crypto.


> That is one reason for the proposed pause.
>

What is?  Deliberately giving the Chinese a lead time?


> We have a similar situation in crypto, where I have focused most of my
> attention in recent years. It’s the wild wild west. Some of the most
> libertarian people in the community want to keep it that way — I call them
> cryptoanarchists — and others like me want clear regulations.
>

The difference: cryptocoins (the section of crypto where there is the most
call for regulations) are, or at least try to be, money or a commodity that
can be directly invested in with the hope that it will increase in price
over time.

Stocks in AI companies might do that, but that is not AI itself.


> -gts
>
> -gts
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 8:44 AM Gadersd via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> The Chinese would be very grateful for Western hiatus on AI development.
>> People are yelling and screaming on the dangers of AI, but no one can stop
>> the golden dragon. It’s too potentially lucrative. Try dangling a slab of
>> meat over a pack of starving wolves and just try telling them to be patient.
>>
>> On Mar 29, 2023, at 2:11 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.
>>
>> 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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