One of the most prominent narratives about AGI, or artificial general intelligence, in the popular media these days is the “AI doomer” narrative. I’m reminded of something that Noam Chomsky once said in 2002, during the early years of George Bush’s misguided “War on Terror.” Chomsky declared: “We certainly want to reduce the level of terror,” he said, referring to …
The story so far: On March 29, Elon Musk and a group of AI experts signed an open letter calling for a moratorium on developing artificial intelligence systems that are more powerful than OpenAI’s recently launched large language model, GPT-4. Citing one of the Asilomar AI principles on how advances in AI could profoundly impact people’s lives, the Future of …
An open letter co-signed by Elon Musk, calling for an immediate pause in AI research, has cited the work of four AI experts who have expressed their concerns over the matter. As of Friday, an open letter dated March 22 had received over 1,800 signatures, demanding a six-month pause in the advancement of AI systems that surpass the capabilities of …
