Re: Open letter urging to pause AI

čt 30. 3. 2023 v 9:04 odesílatel Krzysztof Janowicz <janowicz@ucsb.edu>
napsal:

> On 3/30/23 08:27, Georg Rehm wrote:
>
> This letter is nothing but hype. Emily Bender dissected the letter on
> Twitter and put together the essence of it on Medium. I’d like to invite
> everyone to have a look:
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> https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/policy-makers-please-dont-fall-for-the-distractions-of-aihype-e03fa80ddbf1
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>
> My problem with posts like this link above is that they are no longer
> about science and scientific discourse but about activism. This is not even
> mentioning how deeply misleading the parrot analogy is anyways.
>
> I agree with Stefan's argument about the speed of major social disruption.
> Still, concerning the big picture, I worry more about human stupidity
> (killing thousands daily) than artificial intelligence.
>
> IMHO, one of the major problems (and I see many positive aspects
> otherwise) with GPT-like bots is that they take the friction out of content
> creation. While this may be positive in some more distant future, for now,
> it means that the entire way in which the Web, flow of information,
> education, and social media 'content' works may see rapid change within
> months to a degree where a majority of content we may see in 2024 could be
> synthetic. After all, there will be enough folks (human intelligence...)
> that want to get rich quickly by getting paid from ads for the thousands of
> AI-generated articles and images they can now post on their portals or
> social media every minute.
>

"majority of content we see in 2024 could be synthetic" -- this would have
enormous implications for the web, w3c etc. if true -- hard to quantify,
maybe an analysis of common crawl would give some quick results

>
>
> Of course, this is not the only issue and maybe not the most important
> one, but it points to an underlying problem: too long have we called the
> universe, the brain, AI, and so on the 'last frontiers of science', thereby
> forgetting that it is, in fact, US. We (science, policymakers, etc.) do not
> understand society at large. We are puzzled by election results,wars,
> reactions to Covid measures, lack of action on climate change, and so on.
> Hence, we may struggle to maintain civil order and discourse during the
> disruptions to job markets ahead of us, all while being flooded with an
> unprecedented amount of content (e.g., fake videos) with super-human
> social/cognitive engineering skills.
>
> Krzysztof
>
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Georg
>
>
> On 29. Mar 2023, at 21:46, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <
> metadataportals@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 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/
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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.
>
> 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.
>
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