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Elon Musk among those calling for training in powerful artificial intelligence to be suspended.
AI experts and industry leaders such as Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak have recently signed an open letter urging AI labs to stop training models larger than GPT-4 for the next six months. They demand a pause for the sake of safety; "Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable."
This warning from AI experts has raised concerns from the general public, already fearful of the advancements of AI. Unlike it is portrayed in science fiction, AI isn't taking over the world, today's AI is still very dumb and that's the problem. We have yet to understand how models see patterns in data and therefore how to efficiently train them. The letter signatories denounce the current development of AI; which encourages larger and larger models for enhanced performance rather than theoretical understanding of what these models actually learn.
Let's also take a step back and remember that very few AI labs today have the computational resources to train models as large as GPT-4. This letter is therefore not targeting most current AI research.
Full open letter available here.