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

[Giovanni Santostasi]

Giulio,
It is a bad idea per se. Eventually we would look at proposals like these
and say "how idiotic this was". If anything AI would save life and help us
extend lives. We lose 100 K people every single day to aging and disease
for non-existent god sake. That is more death than any war ever caused but
nobody (with the exception of few us that understand these issues) cares.
AI would help us in solving aging and many other problems. Stopping it or
slowing it down is actually the worst possible detrimental action we can
take in terms of what to do with AI. We could have had life changing AI
already if did the right investments long ago. Now finally there is a
meaningful phase transition in AI development and people want to stop this
just based on irrational fears and semi-religious preconceived ideas.
Enough with the luddites.
Giovanni

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?
>
>
>>
>> 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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