{"id":86361,"date":"2023-03-31T13:37:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T17:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=86361"},"modified":"2023-03-31T13:39:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T17:39:26","slug":"we-call-on-all-ai-labs-to-immediately-pause-for-at-least-6-months-the-training-of-ai-systems-more-powerful-than-gpt-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/03\/31\/we-call-on-all-ai-labs-to-immediately-pause-for-at-least-6-months-the-training-of-ai-systems-more-powerful-than-gpt-4\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">a big deal: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@elonmusk<\/a>, Y. Bengio, S. Russell, ??<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tegmark?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tegmark<\/a>?, V. Kraknova, P. Maes, ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Grady_Booch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Grady_Booch<\/a>, ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewYang?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AndrewYang<\/a>?, ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tristanharris?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tristanharris<\/a>? &amp; over 1,000 others, including me, have called for a temporary pause on training systems exceeding GPT-4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PJ5YFu0xm9\">https:\/\/t.co\/PJ5YFu0xm9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GaryMarcus\/status\/1640884040835428357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The above Tweet links to:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/open-letter\/pause-giant-ai-experiments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>P<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/open-letter\/pause-giant-ai-experiments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>ause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from futureoflife.org<br \/>\n<em>We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and dozens of top scientists concerned about the technology moving too fast have signed an open letter asking companies to pull back on artificial intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrevorLAult?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@trevorlault<\/a> reports on the new A.I. plea. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Vu9QlKfV8C\">pic.twitter.com\/Vu9QlKfV8C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Good Morning America (@GMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMA\/status\/1641414645842866178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">However, the letter has since received heavy backlash, as there seems to be no verification in signing it. Yann LeCun from Meta denied signing the letter and completely disagreed with the premise.<\/span><\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.therundown.ai\/p\/ai-destroy-humanity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>source<\/em><\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nope.<br \/>\nI did not sign this letter.<br \/>\nI disagree with its premise. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DoXwIZDcOx\">https:\/\/t.co\/DoXwIZDcOx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yann LeCun (@ylecun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ylecun\/status\/1640910484030255109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/chatgpt-pause-ai-experiments-open-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>In Sudden Alarm, Tech Doyens Call for a Pause on ChatGPT<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from wired.com by Will Knight (behind paywall)<br \/>\n<em>Tech luminaries, renowned scientists, and Elon Musk warn of an \u201cout-of-control race\u201d to develop and deploy ever-more-powerful AI systems.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/The call for a 6 month moratorium on making AI progress beyond GPT-4 is a terrible idea.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m seeing many new applications in education, healthcare, food, &#8230; that&#39;ll help many people. Improving GPT-4 will help. Lets balance the huge value AI is creating vs. realistic risks.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewYNg\/status\/1641121451611947009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a big deal: @elonmusk, Y. Bengio, S. Russell, ??@tegmark?, V. Kraknova, P. Maes, ?@Grady_Booch, ?@AndrewYang?, ?@tristanharris? &amp; over 1,000 others, including me, have called for a temporary pause on training systems exceeding GPT-4 https:\/\/t.co\/PJ5YFu0xm9 \u2014 Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) March 29, 2023 The above Tweet links to: Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter\u00a0&#8212; from futureoflife.org [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,356,45,210,848,237,533,37,35,178,95,3,419,180,285,309,201,204,367,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-computer-science","category-emerging-technologies","category-emotion","category-entrepreneurship","category-experimentation","category-future","category-game-changing-environment","category-generational-differences","category-global","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-legislation-legislatures","category-platforms","category-policy","category-programming","category-vendors","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86364,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86361\/revisions\/86364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}