Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Do you agree with the open letter calling for a PAUSE for six months?

I DISAGREE...

No way in hell anyone is going to "pause" their AI research. This genie isn't going back into its bottle.

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Pandora's Box is open and it's too late to even try to shut it which probably isn't even possible.

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Presents a greater opportunity for nefarious actors to leap ahead.

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I can't help noticing that Elon Musk has been sounding pretty annoyed about the OpenAI project he backed in the early days suddenly making a fortune since he stepped away from it - which according to reports happened after they rejected his 'offer' to take over leadership of the company - and has been talking of creating another of his own... I guess Elon needs a few months to try to catch up.

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The problem with pausing the research is that it requires everyone with resources to agree to pause. That pause presents an opportunity for one of them to leap ahead.

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Sorry, but no organization or company is going to slow down their AI development - especially if they have any amount of VC funding. Every day they don't work on it is cash up in flames. All a 6 month pause is going to do is allow those that are behind that don't adhere to the pause to catch up. The genie is out of the bottle and there is no going back.

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Stopping is not a feasible option considering China and Russia will simply continue and potentially overtake the rest of the world.

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QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS

And everyone who sign the letter knows that "pause" just means stop releasing the latest version to the general public.

SprightlyCephalopod83

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Link to the letter here

RevitalizedFox79

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I'm guessing everyone who signed this, has heavy ties to and investments in China.

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Hence "arms race"

ArtificialCartographer01

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YouTube video on this debate link

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I think one of the most bizarre things about this discussion is the notion that humanity has a shared set of values. How are we ever going to solve alignment problems in AI when we can't solve them in ourselves?

EnigmaticHurdle91

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Prisoner's Dilemma, Tragedy of the Commons.

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So while "responsible" countries take a break, "irresponsible" countries continue research and gain an advantage? Brilliant!

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They know full well that nobody is pausing anything. I think they're just doing this so if things go bad they can say they tried.

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So OpenAI says we can’t pause because others who don’t have our ethical governance won’t and then we won’t be able to counterbalance. But what is the point of ethical governance if you don’t follow it anyways?

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There is an AI battle between Google and Microsoft now. There will be no pause after this point.

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I AGREE...

As long as we can't reliably predict AI's and hadnt had the time yet to create actual failsafe systems to control the soon-to-be by faaar smartest Intelligence on our little planet we indeed should take a moment to figure out what we are actually doing. And not just to try being the very first to rush into to the abyss because of market competition.

Semi-impartialYam62

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Maybe a regulatory body needs to be introduced to regulate Ai, it needs to be world wide though.

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"Let's enjoy a long AI Summer, not rush unprepared into a Fall". Thanks for that.

PoliteBandicoot81

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Here is the thing. Get some Regulation in place. Asap. Remember how chaotic disinformation is already making things. Remember the movie gremlins. AI “gremlins” very damaging. must not be let loose. Put a framework in place. For levels of trust. And fast AI output and moderated by a human willing to have identify verified / known AI o

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That's why Governmental intervention might be necessary in this case. But since it takes much longer than 6 Months, for them to decide on anything, my hopes are not very high in that regard...

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