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

[Giovanni Santostasi]

What a stupid idea.
Fear mongering at its best. This cannot be stopped and it should not be
stopped. AI will actually change and solve most of our problems, like most
of technology did over time.
This is the last bastion for the religious and superstitious minds. They
fear the supremacy of humans over intelligence could be over so their
entire vision of the world is collapsing. They want it both ways, like
Gordon. The AI do not understand and they are faking intelligence and
meaning and at the same time they are dangerous and they take the world.
Such an irrational and imaginative way of thinking.
Giovanni


On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 11:14 PM 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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