Re: Open letter urging to pause AI

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:

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/policy-makers-please-dont-fall-for-the-distractions-of-aihype-e03fa80ddbf1

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.
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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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