AI Experts Call for Pause in Technology’s Development

[dasari4kntr]

Elon Musk, Other AI Experts Call for Pause in Technology’s Development

Appeal causes tension among artificial-intelligence stakeholders amid concern over pace of advancement

Several tech executives and top artificial-intelligence researchers, including Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, are calling for a pause in the breakneck development of powerful new AI tools.

A moratorium of six months or more would give the industry time to set safety standards for AI design and head off potential harms of the riskiest AI technologies, the proponents of a pause said.  

 

 

“We’ve reached the point where these systems are smart enough that they can be used in ways that are dangerous for society,” Mr. Bengio, director of the University of Montreal’s Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms, said in an interview. “And we don’t yet understand.”

 

These concerns and the recommendation for the pause were laid out in a letter titled “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter” coordinated by the nonprofit Future of Life Institute, which lists Mr. Musk as an external adviser. The letter that was made public Wednesday was also signed by Appleco-founder Steve Wozniak; Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque; and co-founders of the Center for Humane Technology, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, who have been critical of social media and AI technology, said a spokeswoman for the team authoring the letter. 

The letter doesn’t call for all AI developmentto halt, but urges companies to temporarily stop training systems more powerful than GPT-4, the technology released this month by Microsoft Corp.-backed startup OpenAI. That includes the next generation of OpenAI’s technology, GPT-5. 

OpenAI officials say they haven’t started training GPT-5. In an interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company has long given priority to safety in development and spent more than six months doing safety tests on GPT-4 before its launch. 

“In some sense, this is preaching to the choir,” Mr. Altman said. “We have, I think, been talking about these issues the loudest, with the most intensity, for the longest.” 

Calls for a pause clash with a broad desire among tech companies and startups to double down on so-called generative AI, a technology capable of generating original content to human prompts. Buzz around generative AIexploded last fall after OpenAI unveiled a chatbot with its ability to perform functions like providing lengthy answers and producing computer code with humanlike sophistication. 

Microsoft has embraced the technology for its Bing search engine and other tools. AlphabetInc.’s Google has deployed a rival system, and companies such as Adobe Inc., Zoom Video Communications Inc. and Salesforce Inc. have also introduced advanced AI tools.

“A race starts today,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said last month. “We’re going to move, and move fast.”

That approach has spurred renewed concerns that a rapid rollout could have unintended consequences alongside real benefits. Advances in AI have surpassed what many experts believed was possible just a few years ago, said Max Tegmark, one of the organizers of the letter, president of the Future of Life Institute and a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

“It is unfortunate to frame this as an arms race,” Mr. Tegmark said. “It is more of a suicide race. It doesn’t matter who is going to get there first. It just means that humanity as a whole could lose control of its own destiny.” 

The Future of Life Institute started working on the letter last week and initially allowed anybody to sign without identity verification. At one point, Mr. Altman’s name was added to the letter, but later removed. Mr. Altman said he never signed the letter. He said the company frequently coordinates with other AI companies on safety standards and to discuss broader concerns. 

“There is work that we don’t do because we don’t think we yet know how to make it sufficiently safe,” he said. “So yeah, I think there are ways that you can slow down on multiple axes and that’s important. And it is part of our strategy.” 

Messrs. Musk and Wozniak have both voiced concerns about AI technology. “There are serious AI risk issues,” Mr. Musk, who was among the early founders and financial backers of OpenAI, said on Twitter. 

Mr. Musk at the same time has embraced some AI tools at Tesla for the company’s advanced driver-assistance functions. Tesla last month said it was recalling around 362,800 vehicles equipped with its technology marketed as Full Self-Driving Beta. The U.S. top car-safety agency said the technology could, in rare circumstances, violate local traffic laws, potentially increasing the risk of a collision if a driver fails to intervene.

Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta Platforms Inc., on Tuesday tweeted that he didn’t sign the letter because he disagreed with its premise. 

Microsoft declined to comment, and Google didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Tegmark said many companies feel “crazy commercial pressures” to add advanced AI technology into their products. A six-month pause would allow the industry “breathing room,” without disadvantaging ones that opt to move carefully. 

The letter said a pause of at least six months should be declared publicly and be verifiable and all key actors in the space should participate. “If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium,” the letter says. 

AI labs and experts can use this time to develop a set of shared safety rules for advanced AI design that should be audited and overseen by outside experts, the authors argue, adding, “These protocols should ensure that systems adhering to them are safe beyond a reasonable doubt.”

“I don’t think we can afford to just go forward and break things,” said Mr. Bengio, who shared a 2018 Turing award for inventing the systems that modern AI is built on. “We do need to take time to think through this collectively.”

[Spartan]

@csrcsr  anna    mana jobs   

[csrcsr]

10 minutes ago, Spartan said:

@csrcsr  anna    mana jobs   

Nenu chese get put post if else ki emi jobs untayi le anna

[hunkyfunky2]

@dasari4kntr is there any video or blog post which explains how these LLM work for a 10 year old ? 

 

[hunkyfunky2]

 

 I understand the basic architecture but I've no clue how the training happens and how the data is stored.

 

I heard they spent millions on super computers ( that's where musk 100M ) ... So does it mean Google and any other competition need that kind of infrastructure to train ? 

 

It rules out smaller players and easily become monopoly or duopoly.

 

Thoughts? 

[anna_gari_maata]

Nothing surprising

[dasari4kntr]

22 minutes ago, hunkyfunky2 said:

@dasari4kntr is there any video or blog post which explains how these LLM work for a 10 year old ? 

 

 

22 minutes ago, hunkyfunky2 said:

 

 I understand the basic architecture but I've no clue how the training happens and how the data is stored.

 

I heard they spent millions on super computers ( that's where musk 100M ) ... So does it mean Google and any other competition need that kind of infrastructure to train ? 

 

It rules out smaller players and easily become monopoly or duopoly.

 

Thoughts? 

check the tech learning thread yesterday post…is that what your asking..?

i want to give a try that this weekend..

[sarvayogi]

27 minutes ago, hunkyfunky2 said:

 

 I understand the basic architecture but I've no clue how the training happens and how the data is stored.

 

I heard they spent millions on super computers ( that's where musk 100M ) ... So does it mean Google and any other competition need that kind of infrastructure to train ? 

 

It rules out smaller players and easily become monopoly or duopoly.

 

Thoughts? 

LLM are very expensive. One training run of chat GPT costs 12 million dollars. We internally are building a prototype LLM similar to chatGPT but of course definitely not that scale but its *** interesting

[RAHUL_DRAVID]

China wont stop lol.... inka AI WARS start amma

[SRH]

45 minutes ago, dasari4kntr said:

 

check the tech learning thread yesterday post…is that what your asking..?

i want to give a try that this weekend..

Post the thread here bro..

[TexasAdda]

1 hour ago, csrcsr said:

Nenu chese get put post if else ki emi jobs untayi le anna

More than enough anna google will hire you without interview because your famous in bay area 

[kevinUsa]

54 minutes ago, sarvayogi said:

LLM are very expensive. One training run of chat GPT costs 12 million dollars. We internally are building a prototype LLM similar to chatGPT but of course definitely not that scale but its *** interesting

Ante open ai vadu oka million times chesi untada

[hunkyfunky2]

6 hours ago, sarvayogi said:

LLM are very expensive. One training run of chat GPT costs 12 million dollars. We internally are building a prototype LLM similar to chatGPT but of course definitely not that scale but its *** interesting

Any video or blog post if what you are doing? 

In 20 year career , 1st time in feeling restless as with any technology finally it will come to data structure and algorithms... Logic and data. Even Google sub ms response I get it- 

With AI, I can't comprehend what's happening. 

[ahimsavaadhi1]

Oak sari momentum vachhaka , I don’t think people or governments can stop this. 
 

infact this is a detriment now. 

[onyx]

I think its time for everyone to off yourselves. lmao

starting with Elon Musk - the dumbest poser of 'em all

dumb people are better dead than be a strain on earth's resources.