Tech leaders like Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk have asked everyone who uses AI technology to take a break. They want us to stop developing anything more advanced than GPT-4 for at least 6 months. This will give us a chance to enjoy the existing tech safely and fairly, since we haven’t thought carefully about possible dangers.
Big companies like Microsoft and Google are competing with each other to build chat systems which use advanced AI technology. This is called GPT-4, which stands for OpenAI model. For example, a new version of Bing search engine uses GPT-4 while Google has invented its own AI system named Bard that is powered by LaMDA. As people started noticing this race between tech giants, concerns have grown around the use of AI technology.
Unfortunately, lots of people aren’t paying attention to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) even though researchers have been competing to make and launch powerful AI devices that not even its creators understand or can control.
Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and other famous people who know a lot about Artificial Intelligence (AI) wrote a concerned letter. The Future of Life Institute (FLI), an organization that works to keep new technology safe, was the one who published it. Elon Musk donated $10 million for studies about AI safety to FLI. Authors Yuval Noah Harari and Tristan Harris and also Aza Raskin from Center for Humane Technology are among the signatories of the letter. They also published an opinion piece in the New York Times last week talking about potential risks from AI.
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In 2022, lots of scientists did a survey about Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the survey, almost half of the people said that bad things could happen because of AI, even human extinction! 68 percent thought that more should be done to make sure it is safe.
If you want to join the people who are worried about how quickly AI is being developed and if its safe, you can add your name to the letter. However, new names might not be checked, so any names added after it was first released may not be real ones.