FOUR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EXPERTS HAVE EXPRESSED CONCERN AFTER THEIR WORK WAS CITED IN AN OPEN LETTER – CO-SIGNED BY ELON MUSK – DEMANDING AN URGENT PAUSE IN RESEARCH.
THE LETTER, DATED MARCH 22 AND WITH MORE THAN 1,800 SIGNATURES BY FRIDAY, CALLED FOR A SIX-MONTH CIRCUIT-BREAKER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMS “MORE POWERFUL” THAN MICROSOFT-BACKED OPENAI’S NEW GPT-4, WHICH CAN HOLD HUMANLIKE CONVERSATION, COMPOSE SONGS AND SUMMARIZE LENGTHY DOCUMENTS.
SINCE GPT-4′S PREDECESSOR CHATGPT WAS RELEASED LAST YEAR, RIVAL COMPANIES HAVE RUSHED TO LAUNCH SIMILAR PRODUCTS.