Four artificial intelligence experts have expressed concern after their work was cited in an open letter – co-signed by Elon Musk – demanding an urgent pause in research.
The letter, dated March 22 and with more than 1,800 signatures by Friday, called for a six-month circuit-breaker in the development of systems "more powerful" than Microsoft-backed OpenAI's new GPT-4, which can hold human-like conversation, compose songs and summarize lengthy documents.
Civil society groups in the U.S. and EU have since pressed lawmakers to rein in OpenAI's research. OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Mitchell, now chief ethical scientist at AI firm Hugging Face, criticized the letter, telling Reuters it was unclear what counted as "more powerful than GPT4".
"It is dangerous to distract ourselves with a fantasized AI-enabled utopia or apocalypse which promises either a 'flourishing' or 'potentially catastrophic' future," they wrote.FLI president Max Tegmark told Reuters the campaign was not an attempt to hinder OpenAI's corporate advantage. Her research argued the present-day use of AI systems could influence decision-making in relation to climate change, nuclear war and other existential threats."There are non-existential risks that are really, really important, but don't receive the same kind of Hollywood-level attention."
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