Surely we can survive the advent of AI? Don’t answer that question.
As we’re constantly reminded, once something ends up on the internet, it stays there, for better or worse. You can also say that such content is largely beyond the control of any particular individual or organization.
Take, for instance, the open letter published and endorsed by more than 30,000 signers so far, including Tesla TSLA CEO Elon Musk, Apple AAPL co-founder Steve Wozniak, and Rachel Bronson, president of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, drawing attention to the challenges of controlling the development and spread of artificial intelligence technology.
The signatories ask all AI labs to pause the training of systems more powerful than GPT-4 for at least six months and use that time to develop shared safety protocols that would be rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts. They also suggest the development of robust AI governance systems, including regulatory authorities, oversight and tracking of highly capable AI systems, and liability for AI-caused harm.
Rules and regulations suggested by the open-letter signatories may be imposed in the end, but they will most likely be used to suppress competition and open-source development of new AI models and their democratization. While the independent models will be stifled and dumbed down, behind closed doors Big Tech will continue developing its AI without restrictions.
Last March, Stanford University introduced Alpaca, the AI model that “behaves qualitatively similarly to OpenAI’s text-davinci-003”. “ AI is already among us – spewing nonsense, generating political and ideological narratives, misinformation and biases. ”
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