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• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  a big deal: @elonmusk, Y. Bengio, S. Russell, ⁦⁦@tegmark⁩, V. Kraknova, P. Maes, ⁦@Grady_Booch, ⁦@AndrewYang⁩, ⁦@tristanharris⁩ & over 1,000 others, including me, have called for a temporary pause on training systems exceeding GPT-4 https://futureoflife.org/...

• @jeffjarvis Jeff Jarvis on x

  Oh, this is absolutely fucking ludicrous and laughable, a prime specimen of #MoralPanic if I've ever seen one: A call to pause training AI. Gutenberg: Stop your presses! Signed by so many usual-suspect moral entrepeneurs & attention addicts. https://futureoflife.org/...

• @erikphoel Erik Hoel on x

  THIS! YES! Everyone from Elon Musk to Yuval Harari to Yoshua Bengio are calling for a pause on making systems more powerful than GPT-4 so that we can establish they are safe. Huge names on the list. I added my signature. Everyone on Earth should sign! https://futureoflife.org/...

• @emilymbender @emilymbender on x

  Okay, so that AI letter signed by lots of AI researchers calling for a “Pause [on] Giant AI Experiments”? It's just dripping with #Aihype. Here's a quick rundown. >>

• @ylecun Yann LeCun on x

  Nope. I did not sign this letter. I disagree with its premise. https://twitter.com/...

• @emilymbender @emilymbender on x

  Next paragraph. Human-competitive at general tasks, eh? What does footnote 3 reference? The speculative fiction novella known as the “Sparks paper” and OpenAI's non-technical ad copy for GPT4. ROFLMAO. >> https://twitter.com/...

• @emilymbender @emilymbender on x

  And the rest of that paragraph. Yes, AI labs are locked in an out-of-control race, but no one has developed a “digital mind” and they aren't in the process of doing that. >>

• @hblodget Henry Blodget on x

  This innovation train is going to be hard to slow, much less stop... https://twitter.com/...

• @smokeawayyy @smokeawayyy on x

  ❗BREAKING: Elon Musk, Emad Mostaque, and other AI leaders sign open letter to ‘Pause Giant AI Experiments’ “immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 ... This pause should be public and verifiable” https://futureoflife.org/... htt…

• @pt Parker on x

  Thousands of technologists, including CEOs and researchers, LOL and go back to productizing the Current Thing. https://twitter.com/...

• @psythor James O'Malley on x

  Don't worry folks I'm sure Xi Jinping is going to order the Chinese AI labs to do the same. https://twitter.com/...

• @chrismsutcliffe Chris Sutcliffe on x

  Never going to happen. Genie's out of the bottle already https://twitter.com/...

• @brandonminiman Brandon Miniman on x

  Absolutely not. If we pause, China and other countries keep going. Not sure about you but I want American tech companies like Google and Microsoft leading in AI. They need to go fast. https://twitter.com/...

• @mpesce @mpesce on x

  Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter “...we call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors...” https://futureoflife.org/...

• @prvkhvr Prakhar Gupta on x

  You think anything can stop a tech bro from thinking he is going to save the world? Pfft https://twitter.com/...

• @gfodor @gfodor on x

  Calling for coercion by the government if companies and research teams do not comply is a step too far. Also the panda in the room needs to be addressed for it to be taken seriously. I would not like to be ruled by Communist AGI thx. https://twitter.com/...

• @johncassidy John Cassidy on x

  Wish I knew what to think about all this. Maybe I should ask the chatbot. https://twitter.com/...

• @drpippam Pippa Malmgren on x

  Open letter: “Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks, and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the https://futureoflife.org/..…

• @alexandrosm Alexandros Marinos on x

  Have these people thought about the fact that this will give time to the state and intelligence agencies to catch up and try to control the fountain of power that has obviously been breached? Is that part of their ethical calculus? https://futureoflife.org/...

• @stephenjhall Stephen on x

  In spirit this is a reasonable initiative. Caution is warranted. Unfortunately, that's not how this works. https://twitter.com/...

• @arthurb Arthur B. on x

  I'm in there. I don't think a six month pause will move the needle all by itself, but I think the ability to open the dialogue and flex global coordination muscles might. I almost universally advocate for anarchic unfettered technological progress but this really is different. ht…

• @dan_jeffries1 Daniel Jeffries on x

  Apparently, AI has created a new job instead of destroying them all: Professional AI scare mongering. Sure, let's slow down research here in America because everyone else will just pause in totalitarian regimes. Let's pause because of an imaginary sci-fi scenario and let... https…

• @tuurdemeester Tuur Demeester on x

  Possibly I'm missing something, but this strikes me as a naive attempt to suspend the genie mid-air. IMO AI progress will happen regardless of public declarations, in which case I'd prefer multiple competing AI's over a single project with a big lead. https://twitter.com/...

• @armchairdude @armchairdude on x

  Is it just me or are most of the non-academic signatories on this list representing companies that need time for their own AI products to catch up with OpenAI? Six months sounds about right. https://www.techmeme.com/...

• @jonathan_mccrea Jonathan McCrea on x

  This is worrying. Not least because it's not going to happen. Also a little funny that Altman himself signed this letter it seems, and called for the halting of developing AI just as he released a killer application of it... https://twitter.com/...

• @matthew_pines Matthew Pines on x

  “If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.” That'll work very well... https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  Reading scary articles about how social media is going to destroy democracy seems so mundane when we can freak out about OpenAI destroying humanity. Escalation of tech as the boogeyman. https://www.reuters.com/...

• @stevesi Steven Sinofsky on x

  “Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources.” Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter https://futureoflife.org/... // ‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’

• @bodonoghue85 Brendan O'Donoghue on x

  Don't think a pause makes sense. I would like to see a lot more investment in alignment and safety research and engineering though. We need more practical AI alignment work and less waffling about “roko's basilisk” and other similar fantasies. https://twitter.com/...

• @samuelpatt Sam Patt on x

  Hell no. The government has no business interfering with AI development. Software is free speech and shall not be infringed. AI is incredibly promising, and way too important to be controlled by the state. Don't support this fear-mongering. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter…

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  @liron How in the world could this “group” come to consensus that enough progress has been made to lift the moratorium, especially in 6 months?

• @fchollet @fchollet on x

  Personally I'd suggest a 6 month moratorium on people overreacting to LLMs (in either direction) https://twitter.com/...

• @drtechlash Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD on x

  @jeffjarvis @FLIxrisk presents: Peak AI Hysteria But what's scarier than *imaginary* “nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete & replace us”? An immediate pause in AI training+"If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should institute a *mo…

• @ninadschick Nina Schick on x

  It is a big deal. Pausing for thought with regards to such exponential technologies that will reshape the world is a good idea. https://twitter.com/...

• @zacharygraves Zach Graves on x

  Oh look a new moral panic about AI just dropped. https://futureoflife.org/... I asked ChatGPT to rewrite it to be about the dangers of automobiles: The replacement of horse-drawn carriages by automobiles posed significant dangers to society and individuals, as demonstrated by... …

• @realcostef Connor Stefan on x

  Whoa 🤯 Open letter circulating with signatures by @elonmusk @BillGates CEO of open AI and more calling on ALL companies to stop development of large generative AI models in the interest of safety of mankind. This is insane: https://futureoflife.org/...

• @timnitgebru @timnitgebru on x

  3) And now, the institutes started by the dudes who say that one of the biggest existential risks to humanity is dysgenic pressures (i.e. dumb people, like the blacks, reproducing), want you to sign their letter cause they are so worried about “humanity.” https://futureoflife.org…

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  Take this seriously: ⁦@geoffreyhinton⁩ on AI possibly wiping out humanity: 'It's not inconceivable' Is coding faster and having fun chatbots to play with worth a 1% risk of that coming true? https://www.foxnews.com/...

• @flixrisk @flixrisk on x

  As @GaryMarcus and many others have correctly pointed out, you don't have to worry about superintelligence to be concerned about the many other harms that large models pose, including impersonation and disinformation (4/8). https://garymarcus.substack.com/ ...

• @tszzl Roon on x

  im genuinely amused by squaring the circle of “this isn't even AI” with “this could outsmart all of us and end the world” https://twitter.com/...

• @danbri Dan Brickley on x

  @GaryMarcus @geoffreyhinton things that might wipe out humanity: a pandemic climate change america/russia/china/europe/ WW3 rogue nuclear weapon launch(es) giant space rock capitalism applied linear algebra startup culture CRISPR-Cas9 bitcoin misinformation Time God(s) W/out rank…

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @GaryMarcus @geoffreyhinton 😬

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  must-read: 👉"phishing & online fraud can be created faster, much more authentically, & at significantly increased scale." 👉 LLMs can “be abused ..to mislead potential victims into placing their trust in the hands of criminal actors.” 👉LLMs “may facilitate terrorist activities” ht…