An open letter calls for companies to pause building AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 due to “profound risks to society and humanity.” The letter is full of the usual hype like "powerful digital minds" and "emergent capabilities." My most cynical side thinks it's actually a marketing ploy. In any case, the letter is misdirected. It's the buyers of the technology, especially governments, who should stop deploying models without understanding their biases, the impact of the errors they (definitely) make, the distribution of harmful effects, etc. In other domains, due diligence in procurement is just a matter of course, but bring in the magic of AI, and everything just works! #responsibleai #aiethics #largelanguagemodels https://lnkd.in/eeuW_qBX
Antony Sloan
1y
What am I missing? The founder, CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX; angel investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; owner and CEO of Twitter, Inc.; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI thinks AI is "a profound risk to society." What's next, Jeff Bezos thinks eCommerce is a risk to society? I mean, it is, but seriously...?
Bo Begole
1y
"AI doesn't hurt people, people do." - I'm largely kidding but that's what your argument sounds like. I'm kidding because the letter sounds alarmist. What specific negative effects are we fearing? There is no concrete concern nor even a plan to reach a plan for managing the concerns.
Very well and succinctly stated! We have become a species intent on hyperbole at the cost of diligent thought, industrious work, and careful analysis. The sad fact of the matter is that we'd rather have someone else or even better - something else - do our thinking and resolve our problems for us.
Uroosa Khan
1y
Richard Bell what we anticipated...
Retired R&D Executive
1yOne could say that failure prone autonomous driving systems are a profound risk to society.