Several tech leaders, including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, have called for a pause on all training of artificial intelligence systems more powerful than GPT-4.
In an open letter from the Future of Life Institute, AI labs are urged to pause the development of systems that can compete with human-level intelligence for at least six months.
GPT-4 is the latest version of the large language model software developed by San Francisco-based research firm OpenAI.
- OpenAI kicked off the recent race to develop various AI tools after it released its image-generation tool called Dall-E 2 and, more recently, its chatbot ChatGPT.
- The letter stresses that AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity.
- It notes that Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable.
- The letter has been signed by over 1,000 people across various sectors, including tech and AI research.
- The Future of Life Institute is a nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- The firm promotes the responsible and ethical development of artificial intelligence.
