👉🏻 https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
Future of Life, a non-profit organization, published a letter in which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, philanthropist Andrew Yang, and about a thousand other artificial intelligence researchers called for an "immediate suspension" of the training of AI systems "more powerful than GPT-4"
The letter, issued by the non-profit Future of Life Institute called for a pause on advanced AI development until shared safety protocols for such designs were developed, implemented and audited by independent experts
The letter also detailed potential risks to society and civilization by human-competitive AI systems in the form of economic and political disruptions, and called on developers to work with policymakers on governance and regulatory authorities
When you say more eyes, does that mean you and I get a say, or is that limited to a closed special interest group.
I get what you’re saying but I don’t think you get what they’re saying. You know they’re not going to open it up to the world. We don’t even know who owns chatgpt, so there’s no way of knowing what the real goal is. Are they really afraid of artificial ignorance (let’s face it, that’s what chatgpt is) or is this just a way to prevent any competition.
Personally I think any attempts at trying to recreate intelligence/consciousness is just another way of playing god to these sick fucks, but that’s just me.
The fact of the matter is, whether we aren't in the know directly, more eyes on means it's harder to hide malicious behavior.
Whether we can do something about it is of course entirely separate.
As for AI, playing God, etc. that's a take, sure.
But it's also at its core just automation, a step forward in that. I'm sure some people want to do it to play God, but to others it's to improve the quality of life of people.
AI can diagnose more accurately than doctors, and source the proper treatment via parsing millions of cases in an instant as one example.
It can sequence and potentially resolve cancer much faster and more successfully than a doctor as well.
There is a lot of good for humanity in its potential, but there is also a lot of bad.
If we could have a direct say, that'd be great. But in the absence of that, I'd rather have a larger group of people be a part of it, because the more people who are part of something, the more chances and aide or an intern or an O.M.G. gets a peek, and that's more beneficial than a secret group of unnamed people.
AI can only do what you program/train it to do. Unless that ai is talking about parasites in your example there is no real benefit, just an illusion of one.
Look at how many people are easily misled by politicians and doctors. Don’t think you want to add ai to that list.
This isn’t something I would leave up to chance. The sad part is how much it imitates covid. How many good doctors spoke up about the vaccine? How did that work out for them.
Only way it works is with full transparency, and I don’t think I have to explain why that’s a bad idea in of itself.
We should be working to increase real intelligence before we even worry about the artificial kind.