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I don’t think we can put the toothpaste back in the tube regarding AI
While there may be a public interest in this, keep in mind, a lot of these companies are direct competitors of OpenAI, and a moratorium would kneecap the industry leader and give them all a window of time to catch up. They are all conflicted.
Let’s face it. The first 10 years of AI is just going to be all porn.
You know and that’s what most rouge A.I movies get wrong. Instead of murderous robots it would be murderous robots with porn dialogue as it guns me down
I don’t think it’s so much AI development that’s the issue right now, it’s misapplication. Work on actual fundamentals of the technology as well as regulatory controls could be beneficial to society, what needs to stop is the rush to apply it to things like consumer vehicles where it isn’t yet capable, or search engines where its function often fails to meet its role (fabricating answers instead of just finding them).
While I agree that with AI, you can’t just use the typical Silicon valley MO of “move fast and break things”, the cynical part of me wonders whether these call for “pauses” are actually a ploy by some of these CEOs to buy their company time so that they can develop some of their own AI to compete with the ones already available.
Yeah, I know, I’m a suspicious person. But it’s not exactly without basis. Leaders in the field of technology and business aren’t always the most generous and philanthropic bunch, and the things they do are often in service of their own ambitions.
Yea, exactly considering Elon Musk is one of these people calling for a “pause”.
Also there’s no guarantee that all nations will comply but will instead take advantage of the “pause”
@Nate the unGreatful That’s also what I was thinking. Pausing out of caution is good, among people with good intentions. But there’s no way to control certain other actors in the field who have less scruples about developing the tech for their own need and advantage (I’m thinking of countries like China, or even Iran, for example). And the only thing that would result for those playing safe, is being left behind by those who don’t care about consequences.
I still think the pause is worth considering and implementing though.
We will continue to develop AI even if it means our eventual destruction. We simply can’t help ourselves. Just look at nuclear weapons as an example. We knew the existential dangers but we built thousands anyway and they’re currently ready to deploy at a moments notice. It’s amazing we haven’t blown ourselves to oblivion yet, but that still could happen. Just look at Putin’s very dangerous nuclear threats. The only hope is if AI turns out to be benevolent.
Car companies are also engaging in Greedflation very useful information
Conclusion, the bad actors wont pause, so we are doomed
So open carry for everyone but let’s pause Ai because it’s hurting people’s feelings?!? Wow..
So…. they can catch up with their own AI very useful information
Nobody is going to pause because they’re going to be too worried about what everyone else is doing and missing out. The pause should be in the release to the public until safety systems and regulations can be set in place. The content generated should be watermarked somehow so we can know what’s generated and what’s not
Elmo wants a pause on AI because he realized he missed the boat while he was trying to make the interest payments on Twitter.
With more genius moves like Twitter, he’s going to become a millionaire!
There’s a pause in AI to appease a few giants where there are lots of partitions out there being ignored that I’ve got over millions of signatures very useful information
The heart of man is wicked continually. Any pause in AI will be in name only in order to make critics go away for a while.
We should get more into upgrading humanity via Neuro Link, so we can live and advance with AI, instead of fearing them.
My question is whether you’re more concerned about AI, or the Russians, Chinese, and other known adversaries? AI may prove to be an adversary. I think it’s already abundantly clear that the Russians, Chinese, and others are adversaries.
How do you enforce an AI development pause? What would that even look like, AND how would you enforce it, with what authority?
A world summit.
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Pretty silly request on AI development to me; nobody is going to pause this development. If they did, it would just go underground. ChatGPT has lit the entire ecosystem of software/hardware developers imagination. The barriers to entry are very small. very useful information