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

[Giovanni Santostasi]

Samantha,
You nailed it, this is not about AI existential dangers but the rich and
wealthy dominance and power.
Giovanni

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 1:43 AM sjatkins via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I very much disagree with those that want to shut GPT-x down.  The refrain
> that the new tech will take too many jobs has been hurt before since the
> Industrial Revolution began.  Some jobs disappear and others open.  That
> the language models don't understand means they are not AGIs and thus not
> directly possibly human competitive.  They have no agency.  What they are
> is a fanstastic tool that needs to be used by humans to do anything.  In
> other words these language models are a fantastic augmentation of human
> abilities.  We really really need that.  We need as much effective human
> intelligence and productivity as we can get and we need it as fast as we
> can get it.
>
> I have a suspicion that some powers that be are a bit nervous about the
> potential to augment the effective intelligent abilities of so many.  It
> could threaten their position and comparative advantage.  I think they are
> especially afraid now that more work is coming out about how to more
> efficiently and cheaply augment and perfect these systems.  If that comes
> to past it will not be under the control of those that can afford large
> resources.  That also gives me hope that it is already out of the bag and
> proliferating too fast to be stopped.
>
> - samantha
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Friday, March 31st, 2023 at 2:25 AM, Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>
>
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>> TIME Magazine, today March 29.
>> "Shut down all the large GPU clusters (the large computer farms where the
>> most powerful AIs are refined). Shut down all the large training runs. Put
>> a ceiling on how much computing power anyone is allowed to use in training
>> an AI system, and move it downward over the coming years to compensate for
>> more efficient training algorithms. No exceptions for anyone, including
>> governments and militaries. Make immediate multinational agreements to
>> prevent the prohibited activities from moving elsewhere. Track all GPUs
>> sold. If intelligence says that a country outside the agreement is building
>> a GPU cluster, be less scared of a shooting conflict between nations than
>> of the moratorium being violated; be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter
>> by airstrike."
>> -Eliezer Yudkowsky
>>
>> https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/
>>
>>>
>>>
> ### I remember Eliezer being quite libertarian back in the day and now he
> wants the World Government to bomb any independent locus of thought to
> smithereens. People change.
>
> This is stupid. A government is a long-feedback loop entity, extremely
> inefficient and slow in responding to truly new challenges, unlikely to
> maintain alignment with the goals of its human subjects and its failures
> grow with its size. It would be suicidal to try to use the mechanism of
> government to solve AI alignment.
>
> Our only chance of surviving the singularity is to build a guardian AI, an
> aligned superhuman AI that would be capable of preventing the emergence of
> unaligned or malicious superhuman AIs - a bit like a world government but
> without the psychopaths and the idiots.
>
> Our best chance for building the guardian AI is for highly competent and
> benevolent AI programmers with unlimited resources to work as fast as they
> can, unimpeded by regulations (see "long-feedback loop" and "extremely
> inefficient" for why regulations are a bad idea). Give them all the compute
> they can use and keep our fingers crossed.
>
> Maybe we'll make it to our rapture of the nerds.
>
> Rafal
>
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