Recently there was a call by thousands of Artificial Intelligence researchers to pause training of models more advanced than GPT4. We are getting t...
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Even if we were approaching general, or strong AI, why would a bunch of people saying, "let's hold off" have any effect on the people doing the research, who are all part of big businesses which aren't interested in ethical considerations beyond what happens to fall in line with making a profit?
My thesis was that it wouldn't. AI isn't a product that will be packaged and sold, but rather will be used by businesses to replace human labour. The race by the AI companies to be THE company is an existential one for them. There is no prize for second place. There is no reason to believe this won't follow a similar trajectory to other technology, and that those concerned with AI will be ignored. Further, as a strategy the open letter fails out of the gate.