Elon Musk joins call for pause in creation of giant AI ‘digital minds’
by Alex Hern UK technology editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#6A9ZS)
More than 1,000 artificial intelligence experts urge delay until world can be confident effects will be positive and risks manageable'
More than 1,000 artificial intelligence experts, researchers and backers have joined a call for an immediate pause on the creation of giant" AIs for at least six months, so the capabilities and dangers of systems such as GPT-4 can be properly studied and mitigated.
The demand is made in an open letter signed by major AI players including: Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI, the research lab responsible for ChatGPT and GPT-4; Emad Mostaque, who founded London-based Stability AI; and Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple.
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