Breaking: the runners lagging behind in the AI race demand openAI to stop right on its tracks; this is very unsafe; it will be much safer once we catch up and openAI is on the rear view mirror.
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
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#252I understand that some people find this a hopeless gesture. But I think anybody who thinks "losing jobs" or "China" is a bad outcome from AI is hopelessly lost. The upside of AI if done right - nobody ever having to work again The downside of AI if done wrong - end of humanity It doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine we've made AIs go from thinking like an ant to thinking like a 6-year-old in a few years. Anyb…
If China achieves AGI first, we are done. The first thing they'll do is create cyber-weapons. Their AGI could find vulnerabilities in our systems and brick all of our devices. It's a far greater near term existential risk for us to allow China to gain a lead here.
We could also just talk with China rather than kicking off a new arms race ?
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#253For Sake of Argument lets say you pause US from doing anything on AI, how will you control China, Germany or other Countries.. This will only lead to US Lagging behind other countries.
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#254Articles need to stop using Elon Musk as clickbait headlines. His opinion means less than nothing. He is not an expert in any field.
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#255All that can be done at this point is government regulation, and legislation to enable people to sue for damages caused by AI. Of course, billionaires like Musk would never call for such measures. Signing an open letter like this is little more than virtue signaling.
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#256I've been a staunch supporter of Elon throughout all his scandals, especially the Twitter ones but I'm unable to come up with any justification for this. Everything leads to him (and others) pressuring OpenAI to pause so they could catch up. It doesn't take much smarts to deduce the cats already out of the bag. There is no stopping this, only pressuring/slowing-down/targeting certain players (OpenAI) as a competition…
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#257For Sake of Argument lets say you pause US from doing anything on AI, how will you control China, Germany or other Countries.. This will only lead to US Lagging behind other countries.
Forget countries?
How will you stop me?
I have models on my local computer. I can and will use them. They will get better.
You don't put tech genie's back in their bottles, that's not how it works.
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#258The thing we need last year is regulations enforcing ethical behavior and transparency. What data were the models trained on? Did you have permission to use that data for that purpose? Where is your form, naturally working without third-party trackers, in which people can request their data to be removed from the training data and the learned model (hoho, that will be a challenge!)? How can people check, whether their data is in the training data? And so on.
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#259This kind of publicity will only fuel the hype and the interest of ambitious people.
These "advanced AI systems" are only high end GPU systems from the shelves, or even M2 macbooks.
The software and data they handle are private. Even in legal terms, I can't see how this could be possible. Even DNA engineering could not be limited by law in practice...
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#260Elon thought AI would enslave us, but turns out it empowers us. Now he wants to shut it down and have it all to himself. It's getting to be that whatever the opposite of what Musk wants is the correct course of action for the people.
the opposite of what Musk wants is the correct course of action for the people.
Ok so you want to move back to gas combustion engines, stop deploying internet to rural and third world countries, clamp down on free speech, and make sure there are no tunnels, just elevated highways dividing cities. Is that about right?