AI Leaders Urge Labs To Halt Training Models More Powerful Than ChatGPT-4

Artificial intelligence experts, industry leaders and researchers are calling on AI developers to hit the pause button on training any models more powerful than the latest iteration behind OpenAI's ChatGPT. From a report: More than 1,100 people in the industry signed a petition calling for labs to stop training powerful AI systems for at least six months to allow for the development of shared safety protocols. Prominent figures in the tech community, including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, were listed among the signatories, although their participation could not be immediately verified. "Recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one -- not even their creators -- can understand, predict, or reliably control," said an open letter published on the Future of Life Institute website. "Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable."

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