Editor’s Be aware: The next is a quick letter from Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google and cofounder and member of the board at Singularity Group, Singularity Hub’s mum or dad firm, in response to the Way forward for Life Institute’s latest letter, “Pause Large AI Experiments: An Open Letter.”
The FLI letter addresses the dangers of accelerating progress in AI and the following race to commercialize the expertise and requires a pause within the growth of algorithms extra highly effective than OpenAI’s GPT-4, the massive language mannequin behind the corporate’s ChatGPT Plus and Microsoft’s Bing chatbot. The FLI letter has 1000’s of signatories—together with deep studying pioneer, Yoshua Bengio, College of California Berkeley professor of pc science, Stuart Russell, Stability AI CEO, Emad Mostaque, Elon Musk, and lots of others—and has stirred vigorous debate within the AI neighborhood.
Relating to the open letter to “pause” analysis on AI “extra highly effective than GPT-4,” this criterion is just too imprecise to be sensible. And the proposal faces a severe coordination drawback: those who conform to a pause might fall far behind companies or nations that disagree. There are super advantages to advancing AI in vital fields reminiscent of drugs and well being, training, pursuit of renewable vitality sources to interchange fossil fuels, and scores of different fields. I didn’t signal, as a result of I consider we are able to deal with the signers’ security considerations in a extra tailor-made means that doesn’t compromise these important strains of analysis.
I participated within the Asilomar AI Ideas Convention in 2017 and was actively concerned within the creation of pointers to create synthetic intelligence in an moral method. So I do know that security is a vital situation. However extra nuance is required if we want to unlock AI’s profound benefits to well being and productiveness whereas avoiding the true perils.
— Ray Kurzweil
Inventor, best-selling writer, and futurist
