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Elon Musk, hundreds of tech and science leaders, call for 6-month pause on ‘training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4’


This is a pivotal moment in the story of AI, and how it affects – and will affect – both the entertainment business and our entire lives.

More than 1,000 signatories – including hundreds of technology, scientific and academic leaders – signed a open letter calls on all AI labs worldwide to “immediately suspend for at least 6 months the training of AI systems stronger than GPT-4”.

It added: “This pause must be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a moratorium cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and introduce a ban.”

Those who signed the letter, instigated by Life Future Instituteinclude Elon Musk (CEO of SpaceX, Twitter and Tesla), and co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak.

Other notable signatories include Emad MostaqueCEO of Stability AI (home of the popular text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion), plus Evan Sharpco-founder of Pinterest and Chris LarsenRipple co-founder.

Elsewhere, backers of the letter include three team members at Alphabet/GoogleDeepMind’s experimental AI hub: Victoria Krakovna (DeepMind, Research Scientist, Co-Founder of Future of Life Institute); Zachary Kenton, (DeepMind, Senior Research Scientist); And Ramana KumarDeepMind, Research Scientist.

Musk’s involvement is particularly important, as he co-founded (and helped fund the founding) of Combine OpenAIlaunched GPT-4 on March 14.

San Francisco-based OpenAI, has accepted a 10 billion USD investment package from Microsoft in January of this yearstarted as a nonprofit, but converted to a for-profit company in 2019. (Musk resigned from the board in 2018.)

Today, open AI call GPT-4 (widely known as GPT-4 Chat), “The Latest Milestone in [our] efforts in scaling deep learning.”

It boasts that “while [GPT-4 is] less capable than humans in many real-world situations, [it] demonstrate human-level performance across various professional and academic standards”.

In their open letter, simply titled “Pause Massive AI Experiments,” Musk and other signatories wrote: “AI systems with intelligence that competes with humans can cause havoc. poses profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by leading AI labs. “

They continued: “Contemporary AI systems are now becoming competitive with humans in common tasks, and we must ask ourselves: Should Do we let machines flood our communication channels with propaganda and falsehoods? Should We automate all the jobs, including the completed ones? Should do we develop non-human minds that can eventually outnumber, smarter, obsolete, and replace us? Should Are we in danger of losing control of our civilization? Such decisions are not left to unelected technology leaders.

“Robust AI systems should only be developed when we are confident that their impact will be positive and their risks will be controllable.”

Elsewhere in the letter, the signatories move on to discuss the potential impact of general AI on specific areas of business, politics, economics, and more.

They write: “AI research and development should be refocused on making today’s powerful, modern systems accurate, secure, understandable, transparent, robust, relevant, more reliable and loyal.

“At the same time, AI developers must work with policymakers to dramatically accelerate the development of robust AI governance systems. These should at a minimum include: new and competent regulatory bodies dedicated to AI; monitor and track highly capable AI systems and large pools of computing power; origin marking and watermarking systems to help distinguish the real from synthetic and model leak tracking; a strong audit and certification ecosystem; liability for harm caused by AI; strong public funding for engineering AI safety research; and well-resourced organizations to deal with the severe economic and political disruptions (especially to democracy) that AI will cause.”


Proposing that the world needs AI products to bring “a water marketing system that distinguishes the real from the fake” would resonate with the music business.

Earlier this month, more than 30 groups representing and/or affiliated with the music business debuted Human art campaignto ensure that AI will not replace or “corrosion” human culture and art.

Its signatories include the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Recording Academy, SAG-AFTRA and SoundExchange.Global Music Business

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