The Blubber

Elon Musk and others call for a pause in AI research.

They said: AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity.

"...recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control."

"We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4," the letter says. "This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium."

Sam Altman, the co-founder of OpenAI and acting CEO, has admitted that he was "a little scared" of ChatGPT, the company's chatbot, and how it could take the jobs of multiple people. Despite the fears of the tool potentially taking over jobs, he noted that it could replace them with "much better" ones.

In an interview with ABC News, Sam Altman gave a statement saying that he was "a little bit scared" of artificial intelligence's potential. He noted that the public shouldn't trust him if he said that he himself wasn't scared.

Altman: "I think if I said I were not, you should either not trust me, or be very unhappy I'm in this job... The reason to develop AI at all, in terms of impact on our lives and improving our lives and upside, this will be the greatest technology humanity has yet developed,"

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