Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute
futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments
What Jamie wrote
Interesting to see many big names, including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, signing onto this.
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.
I don't really get what 6 months is going to do. It seems very arbitrary. Everybody just stop for 6 months because then we will know what?
And if they don't, the government should step in? At least some of the folks that have signed onto this have also been advocating the government stay out of crypto for years and that technology doesn't need regulation?
At least be consistent. I don't see the point of this, which isn't to say I don't think there is anything to worry about. One of my favorite bloggers suggests this is purely symbolic and will have no impact. I think he is right.