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Anil Meena

What do you think about experts calling to pause AI?

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https://futureoflife.org/open-le... Top artificial intelligence researchers, the co-founder of Apple, and Elon Musk are among signatories of an open letter calling for companies to stop training powerful AIs. They argue that advanced AI “could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth,” and companies should not be racing to unleash it. The letter calls for a six-month pause, providing time to decide whether developing things that might “outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us” is a good idea. Meanwhile, a Goldman Sachs report suggested that generative AIs like GPT-4, the most advanced platform so far debuted, could automate away the equivalent of 300 million jobs, especially in legal and administrative work.
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Shailendra Singh
Makes sense. CRISPR was set 30 years back by eminent geneticists, biologists, chemists etc to control how the scientific community would use the new tools available for gene sequencing, recombination etc The goal must have been simple [1] Encourage only ethical and moral uses cases of genetics [2] Educate scientists on all the negative implications of the science at disposal The scientific community was hesitant initially but in 30 years CRISPR has helped the community drive their attention to the right problems that can be solved using genetics. Are the intentions not the same here?
Anil Meena
@shailendra_singh_ht True, thats precisely what needs to be done in the case of AI. Other wise there will be flood of mis information, scams and god know what.
Anil Meena
@shailendra_singh_ht Focus should be on the betterment of humanity.
Charlotte Chiang
I appreciate the sentiment, but I can't help feeling skeptical. We've already seen the negative impact of unregulated technological innovation and its consequences on our privacy, autonomy, and security. At the same time, proper regulation has never and will never keep up with the pace of innovation. I don't know what is supposed to be achieved in 6 months - even supposing everyone agrees, are we supposed to have a well thought-out plan for regulation in 6 months? Finally, the fact that the founders of tech giants are amongst the signatories, makes me question whether the 'guardrails' would in fact be protecting their interests.
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