Re: Open letter urging to pause AI

Le 29/03/2023 à 22:24, Dan Brickley a écrit :
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> On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 20:51, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program 
> <metadataportals@yahoo.com <mailto:metadataportals@yahoo.com>> wrote:
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>     This letter speaks for itself.
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>     https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-experts-urge-pause-training-ai-systems-that-can-outperform-gpt-4-2023-03-29/ <https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-experts-urge-pause-training-ai-systems-that-can-outperform-gpt-4-2023-03-29/>
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>     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.
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>     Every aspect of daily life, every industry, education systems,
>     academia and even our cognitive rights will be impacted.
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>     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.
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>     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.
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> I have a *lot* of worries, but the genie is out of the bottle.
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> It’s 60 lines of code for the basics,
> https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/ 
> <https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/>
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> 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.

The letter is about conducting new "large AI experiments". Would it be 
taken seriously by all stakeholders, it would not prevent you, me, 
everyone from using the 60 lines of code or really whipping the Llama's ass.


> 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.

Right. All the more reasons to pause and reflect.


--AZ


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