Re: Open letter urging to pause AI

I may only be a "techbro", but when I come across an unexploded mine, I
generally don't wait for "peer-reviewed" confirmation that mines were laid
in the area before suggesting to my family that they not step on it.  Even
if the mine is probably harmless.

Yet another ill-informed ivory tower fluff piece (aka rant).

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 17:32, Georg Rehm <georg.rehm@dfki.de> 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:
>
>
> 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:
>
> 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.
>
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