RE: Open letter urging to pause AI

+1 Dan.

At universities, we have a lot of workshops/conferences to educate us (educators) on how to effectively teach students to appropriately use such powerful assistive technology, how to critically evauluate its recommendations, and how to maintain or maintain or enhance our innovators.  I teach doctors/nurses to learn and apply AI in healthcare, and I am quite excited to incorporate ChatGPT’s programming advice into the May course.

We are also in the process of changing the assessment of learning outcomes.  This is just the beginning, and I am curious to work with my students in the Spring term to enhance etheir learning experiences.

Helen



From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 4:24 PM
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Subject: Re: Open letter urging to pause AI



On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 20:51, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <metadataportals@yahoo.com<mailto:metadataportals@yahoo.com>> wrote:
This letter speaks for itself.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-experts-urge-pause-training-ai-systems-that-can-outperform-gpt-4-2023-03-29/



I may not want to put it as bluntly as Elon Musk, who cautioned against unregulated AI which he called "more dangerous than nukes", but when Nick Bostrom, the late Stephen Hawking, and dozens, no hundreds of international experts, scientists and industry leaders start ringing the bell, is is time to pause and reflect.

Every aspect of daily life, every industry, education systems, academia and even our cognitive rights will be impacted.

I would also like to point out that some science fiction authors have done a great job on very accurately predicting a dystopian future ruled by technology, perhaps the greatest of them all being Philip K. Dick.

But there are dozens of other authors as well and they all give a fairly good impression what awaits us if we do not regulate and control the further development of AI now.

I have a *lot* of worries, but the genie is out of the bottle.

It’s 60 lines of code for the basics,
https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/


Facebook’s Llama model is out there, and being run on consumer laptops. And that’s not even thinking about state level actors, or how such regulation might be worded.

For my part (and v personal opinion) I think focussing on education, sensible implementation guidelines, and trying to make sure the good outweighs the bad.

Dan




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