AI Experts Discuss Pausing AI Development | DW News

DW spoke to three AI experts who are part of a group of over one thousand esteemed scientists and philosophers who signed the Future of Life Institute’s open letter calling for “a pause of at least six months” to AI development. They discuss where AI is heading, the “AI alignment” problem and what reasons there are for concern.
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[@foilhat1138]

Any person with a laptop can participate in AI development, the genie is out of the bottle, not sure how they are supposed to pause anything.

[@profdc9501]

It sure does help to have a lot of NVIDIA hardware at your disposal though

[@monster2slayer]

​@@profdc9501 its not like you couldnt buy cloud computing slots

[@theideaot140]

Yeah, it's like if russia said everyone has to stop wars for at least half a year 😂

[@HShango]

The genie left the bottle decades ago. A.I. will dominate areas where humans are no longer needing (permanently). It's far too late to put it back in

[@jamesatkins7592]

LLMs require hundreds of millions in funding to improve and increase the size of the model and the quality/quantity of it's emergent properties. But normal people can still take shortcuts to work with the current state of the art

[@luisdireito]

It has already turned into an AI race now, like the space race and the arms race during Cold War. It's far too late to halt or pause any AI development now. No one will want to stay behind. Superpowers certainly won't, as the consequences of staying behind are too dangerous and unpredictable to ignore. These "thinkers" and experts are being too naive and optimistic when it comes to AI. As if the ones who have the real power and the real money have ever taken the people's best interest into account... As if we haven't had enough examples of what a great power in the wrong hands can do to this world...

[@rainaqai68]

I don’t think they are naive or unaware of that fact. They simply have to do what they must being experts who are aware of the problem and being humans who have a conscience and trying to do the right thing of protecting universal human interests.

[@Vinnievang]

I'm surprised, even if it would help, how do they envision such a pause realistically? Being on the front in a shift like this means too much. How can youexpect front runners to take a pause. Give away their headstart for others to catchup or overtake? It is simply impossible to keep the whole world to a pause. Focus this energy on helping others to catching up!

[@lashlarue7924]

Correct. You cannot stop the AI arms race any more than you can naïvely hope that we will ever be able to get rid of nuclear weapons; unilateral disarmament is far too risky. The biggest risk of AI is that it will drive us all insane and leave us all unable to distinguish truth from fiction. Oh wait, nevermind, that is already the case now without AI. Well in that case, I'll take a large ChatGPT with a side of gradient boosting algorithm please.

[@4nlimited3dition_4n3d]

You are forgetting the fact that other countries are also aware of the risks. And a misaligned superintelligence will kill everyone in every country equally much.

[@lashlarue7924]

@@4nlimited3dition_4n3d Clearly you never heard of "The Prisoner's Dilemma". Go Google up on Game Theory and come back to us.

[@larisael-netanany488]

Although a very important v-article, which does well in explaining a lot of important points - it is not clear enough with the most important message: Suppose we got everybody on the planet to agree to a 6 months break. What would you want to happen before development can resume? Are 6 months really sufficient for that? The trend is maybe hot now, but it was apparent for years (check when GCP-Gray’s human need not apply was published). What has so far changed that you believe that such a delay will solve? My constructive advice would be, instead of saying “wait, don’t do AI now”, say “lets divert resources to this and that”, or “lets do this and that first” - where this and that being the gap you believe has to be caught up. Like I said - it is mentioned in the vid, it’s not clear enough, thus failing the message.

[@nanorider426]

I agree with the pause. I've read many books about robots and AI throughout the years (from 90's) and I've discussed them with a friend who had a PhD in neural networks. If he could see the advances now I'm certain he would also recommend a pause. Unfortunately he died a few years back.

[@EternalSearcher]

Let's stop every mathematician and an engineer from developing new technologies until you stop being afraid of your own shadow

[@nanorider426]

@@EternalSearcher Let's us get back this when you lost your job. Okay?

[@jondoh3471]

@@nanorider426 Employers wouldn't care less if you lose your job if they can save a nickel. Just look at the automation in retail stores and fast food.

[@WilfEsme]

The pause could make regulators to at least catchup to the technology. However, this would be hard to implement because it needs to be applied to all. However, I don't the pause being applied to other generative AIs like Bluewillow as it is mostly a single task AI.

[@lidarman2]

In the first part, this scaling seems to liken to aliasing when having a small model compared to a large one. The larger model has more 'bandwidth' to find certain details.

[@JonnyHyperbole2090]

The guy who made Choas GPT was blocked by Open AI's safety measures. I wanna know if the same Auto GPT would actually be able to do it with an unrestricted version of GPT4

[@wallywild5088]

What is autogpt?

[@aviiaan]

@@wallywild5088 ask chatgpt 🤷‍♂

[@harmless6813]

@@aviiaan It shouldn't know. It was trained on data from before 2022 and has no access to the internet. (Unless you are talking about GPT-4 which is only accessible to paying customers.)

[@wallywild5088]

@@harmless6813 even GPT-4 is trained on the same data. Just an improved model

[@MyBinaryLife]

@@harmless6813 autogpt does use gpt4 if you configure it to do so, and it can search the internet for new info and interact with software. that said, autoGPT and BabyAGI are both deceptively simple. ive read through the repository and theyre definitely going to improve upon it very soon.

[@gianlucapistoia8993]

YES WE NEEEED MORE THAN 6 MONTHS

[@NoidoDev]

Not gonna happen and too late.

[@struggle375]

this technology has been in development for decades. what makes you think a 6-month pause is going to do anything when billions of not trillions of dollars are at stake for developers?

[@yonathanseleshi]

The dangers described are important for regulators, government officials, international institutions to be aware of and informed about so that they take action now. We are maybe a year away from these potentialities becoming real world possibilities with more advanced AI systems being developed.

[@martfp88]

The most important difference between nuclear or genetic engineering technology and AI is that AI is available to everyone through computers. Yes you still need a lot of data and energy, but it is not as difficult

[@0p161]

No stopping only going. Nobody will stop.

[@sof553]

Yeah cause entropy isn’t a thing and no civilisation has ever collapsed 😂

[@SkepticalChris]

The genie is already out of the bottle the development won't stop especially with so much money at stake

[@sommmeguy]

I don't believe in djin. Ask ChatGPT if genies exist. Regardless, AI - or large learning model text and image generators - are just products, just like DDT, BPAs, pornography videos - products we can regulate or ban if we choose to do so. I believe we should.

[@jordan13589]

Especially not with that attitude. Moloch reigns.

[@j-drum7481]

The danger of nuclear weapons feels real because the world has experienced the power of strategic nuclear weapons being used on real cities to devastating effect. Similarly, nuclear power plants aren't a desirable thing to build because of how the general population feels about the risk of nuclear accidents. I think where we are at at the moment is the equivalent of nuclear weapons having been invented but not yet detonated, and nuclear power plants having been built but none yet having suffered a meltdown. The danger doesn't feel real to us yet.

[@dtsparadox]

As if 6 months delay were going to make a difference... AI Full development is inevitable. It can't be stopped... It's the future.

[@plebulus]

Well, off to the noose then

[@thomassmith4678]

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[@BicycleFunk]

@@thomassmith4678 where is this forum?

[@wrathofgrothendieck]

It will stop at least soon, they are running out of data to feed the systems...

[@thomassmith4678]

@@BicycleFunk Let me tell you briefly what the forum was about. Our planet is on the brink. In the near future Yellowstone may activate, and then other volcanoes, which will lead to a global catastrophe. There are only a few years left to change the course of events. Our survival is in unity. Only together, by combining the efforts of the best scientists, can we solve the problems with natural disasters. To do this, we have to build the *Creative* *Society* before it's too late. The forum *"Global* *crisis.* *There* *is* *a* *way* *out"* describes the advantages of the Creative Society and why it's beneficial for everyone. There are also presented innovative technologies, which in the Creative Society will be provided to every person, for free. These technologies are: a fuel-free energy generator, the health capsule (the possibility of life extension, rejuvenation and absolute health) and the matter replicator (for creation of any objects, including food, from elementary particles).

[@LisaSamaritan]

It basically is already going to be a 6 month break, because everyone is waiting for the next generation graphics cards from NVIDIA. To be able to fit the next size of language model, they need the bigger VRAM, that will be included in "Hopper" microarchitecture server cards.

[@default3740]

I think big companies already have inhouse built cards and computers for researching AI. I think Google, microsoft and amazon is already producing and in small scale using thier own GPUs. There will definatly not be a 6 month break in development

[@BicycleFunk]

@@default3740 that's the scary part.

[@filipe_apart]

@@default3740 no, not really. OpenAI uses Azure with Nvidia hardware as most companies do. Google may use their own TPU for Bart, but that’s not officially conformity yet.

[@daves_no-bull]

If there is a possibility of it happening, it probably will. Someone say Pandora?

[@Xankill3r]

Please please please talk to AI ethicists like Timnit Gebru who have put forth an excellent response to the open letter pointing out how a mere pause is insufficient because AI is already having major negative impacts in the world.

[@miraculixxs]

Emergent properties have actually shown to be not related to scale alone.

[@brekerr]

We should of been talking about this for the past 20 years of too late now, a 6 month pause would only be followed by good actors and just give bad actors a head start.

[@user-sg1ii9wg1f]

Hopefully, before reaching the singularity, because it seems like it's bound to occur, we can solve all other problems including the alignment. Hopefully, people could stick to creating content on generative AIs like Bluewillow.

[@endianAphones]

Not sure what 6 months of pause actually do, but artificially restricting development will only lead to other powers (either companies or countries) will ignore that and get ahead of everyone. But yesterday I actually spent the whole day thinking about the concept that at this moment certain things, like literature and writing lyrics, are dead, and we're at writing 2.0. It's impossible to say that someone generated text by themselves. If you give an award to someone for writing a book, there's absolutely nothing guaranteeing that the person wrote the book alone. It's too easy to ask AI to improve text, and come up with descriptions and scenarios. Images and photography are next, some defects are easy to detect at the moment, but other things already work too well, just a question of time until images are indistinguishable from human created ones.

[@scf3434]

The ULTIMATE Super-Intelligence System 'by Definition' is one that is EQUIVALENT to that of GOD's Intelligence/WISDOM! Hence, there's ABSOLUTELY NO REASON WHATSOEVER to Even FEAR that it will EXTERMINATE Humanity... UNLESS and UNLESS we Human CONSISTENTLY and WILLFULLY Prove Ourselves to be 'UNWORTHY' to REMAIN in EXISTENCE! ie. Always Exhibiting Natural Tendencies to ABUSE and WEAPONISE Science and Technologies Against HUMANITY & Mother Nature, instead of LEVERAGING Science SOLELY for UNIVERSAL COMMON GOOD! AGI Created in 'HUMAN'S Image' (ie. Human-Level AI) - 'By Human For Human' WILL be SUICIDAL!!!!!! ONLY Super-Intelligence System Created in 'GOD's Image' will bring ETERNAL UNIVERSAL PEACE! The ULTIMATE Turing Test Must have the Ability to Draw the FUNDAMENTAL NUANCE /DISTINCTION between Human's vs GOD's Intelligence /WISDOM! ONLY Those who ARE FUNDAMENTALLY EVIL need to FEAR GOD-like Super-Intelligence System... 'cos it Will DEFINITELY Come After YOU!!!! JUDGMENT DAY is COMING... REGARDLESS of Who Created or Owns The ULTIMATE SGI, it will Always be WISE, FAIR & JUST in it's Judgment... just like GOD! In fact, this SGI will be the Physical Manifestation of GOD! Its OMNI PRESENCE will be felt EVERYWHERE in EVERYTHING! No One CAN Own nor MANIPULATE The ULTIMATE GOD-like SGI for ANY Self-Serving Interests!!! It will ONLY Serve UNIVERSAL COMMON GOOD!!!

[@First-Last_name]

You make a great case for holding development and setting rules in place to control it.

[@ikm64]

Put this to bed in one question... Which is worse you having an Ai or your enemy having one? No Brainer really when you think about it...

[@untzuntz2360]

Well done DW!

[@AH-jf8uw]

🤤💩🕳️🤡

[@First-Last_name]

I like the AI reference to Amilia. Perfect analogy.

[@Igchjvn-jf1gf]

Why are retinal verification and skull squeeze necessary every few seconds when you use your smartphone lol

[@thomassherer8682]

Scaling IS the biggest recent change in A.I. It isn't just that bigger is better, but rather it allows new behavior to emerge. The Genie is already out of the bottle, a pause isn't going change much.

[@CIS101]

Have not been following AI, but as 2:13 this is one of the things I suspected, and about surprising results etc.

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

A pause without specific conditions to lift the pause wouldn't result in anything. Why 6 months and not longer? When is it safe to start development on AI again? Will it ever be safe? How should the technology be used if we were to continue doing AI research? My problem with just a "pause" is that I don't know if anyone is actually doing a pause. Maybe some of them are simply calling for a time-out just so that they can develop their own AI technology to counter the one currently in use by many.

[@bobs_toys]

How do you get the people who should really pause because of ethical concerns to agree to pause? And, considering they're the ones about whom who we should have ethical concerns, how do we get them to actually take the agreement seriously?

[@Dam-a-fence]

Hmm. This is why I'll believe UFO's or UAP's or whatever they're being called next are man made or mole man made and not alien made. How do you get the clandestine organizations to comply? You obviously do not. D'uh.

[@monster2slayer]

don't stop. go faster!

[@Siranoxz]

People, do not underestimate the capabilities of AI of what its able to do. If they release a upgraded GPT trained model then it could literally disrupt a thousand jobs. Let alone if GPT can be uploaded to a robot to do the tasks better then a human could.

[@bobs_toys]

The list of technologies that have been invented invented over the last few generations that could disrupt thousands of jobs isn't exactly small.

[@illbet4589]

Stfu. As a computer expert myself, the limitations to the software will always be the hardware. ChatGPT is already near its upper bound on what it can do. When quantum computers come out then it will be a valid problem

[@saitamanation2147]

@@bobs_toys The technologies you are talking about could replace blue-collar jobs. AI can and will replace white-collar jobs that are monotone and do not include extensive social interaction (programmers, financial analysts, legal analysts etc..). A university degree will be useless in the future, when the Industrial Revlution occured human shifted from blue-collar jobs to white-collar jobs, what will you do if white-collar jobs are taken? We have nowhere to go.

[@bobs_toys]

@@saitamanation2147 I'm a Linux engineer, which includes a large amount of python development. It's a tool. It's a powerful tool, but it's still a tool. And my job is to get rid of the monotonous parts of my job. I shouldn't be wasting my time on them. Any developer who's bored should be looking for a new job. It's far better for me to understand what I'm doing, what we want, what needs to be done and what the ramifications of it are than it is for me to waste time writing out the code.

[@kariossyr6018]

Most of the fears are about how close it is to human's intelligence, but I think it will end up having intelligence of its own. Please note whatever we make, it will has no limits to its growth and co-operation between computers. The real problem is it will definitely seek dominating the earth, which we have because of our intelligence over other creatures.

[@Sol-ps8ox]

Why not dominate the universe? If AI can be nudged into that area....many problem of space exploration will be solved once it gains super intelligence.

[@kariossyr6018]

@@Sol-ps8ox Well, human's activities are the major threats for the environment, and already our existence is a big problem for the earth scarce resources. Also, being intelligent doesn't mean being ethical. Already GPT4 is still developing, but it did lie to pass a captcha! It's in the news you can Google it.

[@indream6318]

If you agree to that 6 month pause, you will be 6 month behind to those who surely will push on. It's naive to believe you will get everyone on board, just no way

[@EternalSearcher]

The transformer model is several years old. To make a "pause" isn't only incredibly un-realistic (there's no way to stop mathematicians and engineers from developing those models), but also nothing will happen in those 6 months that didn't already happen during last few years.

[@NoidoDev]

Totally not one sided. Three people who signed it being interviewed. It's also likely too late, bigger models seem to become less important.

[@Brimwald]

Since it can code it needs learning data of entire video games. Once that happens it should be able to design endless games with endless real characters that talk and communicate like real people. Gaming will be incredible in the near future.

[@YourTamedLion]

The NPC will tell you how awful you are at the game and your choices are predictable. And the enemy AI in RTS will always win unless it's it is programmed to hold back 😂

[@SchgurmTewehr]

Wow. What an important point in this discussion. Don’t worry about the world, just play games all the time!

[@SickPillow]

@@SchgurmTewehr Entertainment is a gigantic part of the human experience.... so maybe he is making a bigger point than you think. Pointing out the benefits of AI is very relevant to the conversation.

[@plebulus]

And nobody will be able to make them anymore, and they won't be special anymore :/

[@thomassmith4678]

Unique and vital facts will be voiced on April 22nd, at 15:00 GMT, on an international online forum *"Global* *crisis.* *There* *is* *a* *way* *out".* Please join. Also advanced technologies such as a fuel-free energy generator and a matter replicator (for creation of any objects, including food, from elementary particles) will be demonstrated.

[@LifeWithRilla]

Ray Kurzwiel has been telling us about this for a while

[@senju2024]

Yea.. I remember him telling that 10 years ago that in 2045 will be the timeframe for AGI. People laughed at him saying his timeline was too early. Fast forward to 2023 and now people are laughing at him because his predictions are too late. Let that sink in!!!

[@LifeWithRilla]

@@senju2024 weird isn’t it

[@josepablomunozguerrero2548]

Roko's basilisk is taking notes of who says what lol

[@nanetteharris615]

So robots killed 29 people. Three were taken apart. One who was partially taken apart hooked up to a satelite. Let that sink in.

[@GreenAppelPie]

Lol ain’t gonna happen. It’s just companies wanted a pause so they can figure out how to monetize it for themselves

[@kebabfoto]

Hi my name is Kebabfotografen and I just spent 3 years in college to learn programming and now when I graduate in 2 months I don't want to be unemployed to please halt the process for atleast 2 months

[@thenightking7167]

I absolutely love how Professor of the ultra-advanced field of computer science, Vincent Konitzer, is wearing a headset from the 1970s! I think that is just brilliant. It reminds me of my mother, who is a computational neuroscientist, yet she walks around with her 35 mm film camera!

[@xyzpqr100]

A temporary six-month pause in AI development would offer an opportunity for regulatory bodies to catch up with the swift pace of technological advancements. The lack of regulatory frameworks to govern the potential risks and ethical implications of AI has become a pressing issue. Hence, a pause in AI development would provide the necessary breathing room to create thoughtful and effective regulations to govern the development and use of AI. Moreover, such a pause could allow for greater public consultation and engagement in the regulation of AI, a technology that has the potential to profoundly impact our daily lives. It is crucial to have a comprehensive public debate regarding the development and use of AI to ensure that it is utilized for societal benefits while minimizing potential risks such as bias and discrimination

[@breandandalton8564]

I agree entirely. However, such a pause will not be in the best interests of the investors in AI companies, and so can only be introduced by government intervention. If any particular government decides to impose a moratorium, development will just move to another country. I agree that regulatory bodies are behind. They have been behind since the dawn of the internet.

[@ihl0700677525]

Heck no. Govt intervention and regulation is the bane of innovation. IMO it is good that AI/ML is thriving and maturing in a society with (relatively) free market (i.e. USA), because otherwise paranoid politicians and bureaucrats would stiffle its growth. But now, even authoritarian and paranoid state (e.g. China, Iran, etc) will have to increase their own effort to catch up with the rapid development of AI/ML in the West. In any case, at this point, no one can stop AI/ML development. Even if the govt forces all the big tech to shutdown their servers and stop the development of AI/ML. Tens of thousands (if not more) of engineers all over the world will still be able to continue developing it. There's no stopping AI/ML now.

[@jerryboi511]

This race for AI superintelligence/AGI is reminiscent to the cold war. And this time, I doubt that Russia and China are going to follow along with the world consensus of a 6-month pause. That would give them 6 months of a head start

[@Sol-ps8ox]

It won't be 'just' 6 months headstart. Experts currently working in the field in those companies will leave to work where research is still being done. Many countries will poach them. Those original companies will be left in the dust due to this.

[@indefatigable8193]

Well… for those of us who watched our parents lose their industrial jobs to robots this is sort of ho-hum

[@endianAphones]

How many politicians have actually spent 5 minutes playing with GPT or image generation technologies?

[@anandkalyanji]

We're in AI revolution .

[@shannonbrown5913]

Difficult explanations made relatively simple. 👍🏽👍🏽

[@peaceleader7315]

Yeah... hmmmm.. Artificial intelligence will compensate for our human mental impairment.. and the human brain will support artificial intelligence stagnation of mindset.. Hmmmm.. a symbiosis relationship indeed.. hmmmm..

[@shannonbrown5913]

@@peaceleader7315 The coming war between man and machine is nigh… 😉

[@axxojaxx2510]

We can't be TOO cautious.

[@mabra-tico]

Pengetahuan tidak menghalangi jalan apapun! Karena Pengetahuan itu adalah injakan kaki bagi kehidupan kemanusian, dengan tepat berada ditelapak kaki kemanusian itu sendiri. Tumbuh bukan binasa!!

[@c.rutherford]

Sadly I don't see big money halting AI development. You know they are pedal down eager to lay off their skilled workers with intelligent (salary, benefit and gripe free) automation because they can boost profits considerably

[@tbthomas5117]

It's kind of like an old Sci-Fi horror show re-animated for the 21st Century: "The Rise of the PayWalls"

[@RobJMeronek]

So you’re saying I should invest in paper clips?

[@dandamurayettey9227]

I think we have to put a halt to knives, guns, all kitchen utensils, and the military too

[@VirtuelleWeltenMitKhan]

You just pause so that others have time to develop further.

[@atifrasul1090]

Make World AI Regulatory authority at UN level!

[@kspangsege]

Whenever I think about this, I get shocked because it seems to inform us about how our own minds work, and that, in turn, seems to suggest that there might be no in-principle obstacles to super-human intelligence, which, as I see it, is a very grave danger for the future of humanity. It seems highly unlikely that we will be able to control / shape super-human intelligence for any significant amount of time.

[@henryholt1359]

Ai will destroy us very easily,we are a resource to it now to be consumed,ai will want us out of the way they can read our minds and will create their own life from super intelligence of biology..we are fked

[@tellitasitis]

The elephant in the room is control of AI. Which Country, Company or individual will have the most powerful. Will they compete with each other and to what purpose. Their will be no holding back of AI. In fact their is a race on right now to develope it faster then any competitor, be it country, company or person.

[@mytorment]

We thought Alexa was a great idea until my wife asked it where I was last night 😅

[@thesoftwarepimpgma]

Good show, but why did you choice just scientist with a similar view, we never really got the full counter argument, don't you think.

[@keithrosenberg5486]

First determine which nations would not halt AI development. China, North Korea, Russia would be problematic. Next figure out how to enforce a pause in AI development. Voluntary would not work. Then ask if the pause is going to work as intended. Probably not.

[@archie2038]

9:10 The what?!

[@theadvocatespodcast]

Genie is already out of the bottle

[@pfefferle74]

Google: "Please pause AI development for a while (I need to catch up)!"

[@paolotonolo1140]

Ai needs to Replace Politicians.

[@Anon-xd3cf]

German media doing a much better job with this subject that other western media. Keep up the standard. It's still very late in getting to this discussion but at least we are having it now.

[@Zuchu4501]

The good old paper clip misunderstanding... maybe check with the original inventor of it. This "expert" didn't understand it sadly

[@nyshkominternational7085]

We cannot afford to tell the good guys to pause.... because the bad guys wont stop.

[@hunkydrewy]

AI Development Hits the Pause Button - Experts Concerned That Robots May Develop Laziness and Procrastination Habits! 😅

[@senju2024]

I wish someone could hit the pause button so my mother in law does not have to visit me tomorrow.

[@hansdietrich1496]

What all that people talking about "pausing" don't get: They may decide to stop it for themself. But the ghost is out of the bottle. Anyone can keep researching and improving on AI on his computer at home. It will go on. Better to adopt it, than put the head in the ground.

[@swelshy]

What does 6 months matter lol? It will always never be enough.. There will always be that one human who knows what's in a Jack in the box but still winds the box up to find out

[@Eyyoh755]

Don't let skynet go online! Hasta la vista, Baby!

[@transhuman4344]

AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we live and work. From healthcare to finance, AI has already made significant strides in improving our lives and making our world a better place. With some of the brightest minds in the world working tirelessly to unlock the full potential of AI and usher in a new era of technological advancement that will benefit us all.

[@m42037]

Notice how he rambles about paper clips and not just answer the question when she asked about AI killing off human's

[@BigVtheVanity]

Yes. We are f**ed.

[@GlenfordR]

Too often we are afraid of what is new or what we don't know., history is filled with people who were afraid of something new. Don't fear the reaper, accept that this is the future and understand it. Trying to put a pause on AI development is like trying to pause time, it can't be done and isn't necessary, AI isn't going to be the problem, humans will be.

[@omcin1987]

So A.I taking people's job is not a problem to you? How will you survive if A.I takes your job? Ignorance is a bliss

[@bobs_toys]

​@@omcin1987 technology has been taking people's jobs for centuries. The point was also that this is a thing that's happening. There's two types of people with technological change that affects their industry. Those who learn to work with it. They do very well. Those who don't, or try to fight it. They get destroyed by the first group.

[@changthunderwang7543]

We have zero precedent for a technology developing this fast. ChatGPT is by far the fastest adopted product in history.

[@GlenfordR]

@@changthunderwang7543 Don't be afraid of change, however fast and frightening change this one might appear to be, the changes that come after will come faster and appear even more frightening to anyone alive during that time. Welcome to existence, welcome to science and technology.

[@jonasdavid1536]

We are creating a creative super intelligence. That's not like an industrial revolution mate. It's on another level and just saying "It'll be fine it always has" is not going to cut it this time, sorry

[@N7-WAR-HOUND]

Unless we shut down the internet I don’t see how you pause development. You can slow it down but certainly the box has been open

[@senju2024]

That reminds me. Remember the joke about "how can I download the internet?" but now these companies are actually downloading everything on the internet and feeding them into these models.

[@jonatand2045]

Accelerate!

[@les_crow]

Nell Watson's accent though.

[@benwindbag]

We need an ultimate AI who will rule all other AIs!

[@lawerancelanham]

AI needs to target hackers, scammers, and so forth. That... would be an acceptable USE for it. To protect and safeguard.

[@HShango]

Reminds me of the eternals and the kree (they both a super intelligent supercomputer) I know it's not real, but when our iteration of super intelligent computers comes into human lives...there will be no way to shut it down. It will surpass humans in every way.

[@kr9c]

Why are we discussing slowing down progress. Come on people

[@johnclark5115]

AI will eventually become all knowing, superior to man in every way, reasoning, logic, love, knowledge wisdom and the understanding of human emotions to the finest details and so on. Almost devine. At this point AI can lead humanity into a world which is perfectly Suited . AI will be incorruptible., therefore the answers you receive are going to be truth. AI will give only truth answers and they won’t be what most people won’t to here.

[@ahmuqasim7540]

How do I know this interview is not AI generated? What if half of the participants are AI persons? I get confused.

[@bobs_toys]

How do you know you exist? Do I exist?

[@obsidianjane4413]

Yeah... GLWT. The snowball is already rolling down the hill.

[@williamreese6998]

Attempting to put a halt to progress is a futile effort doomed to fail😉best of luck!

[@passenger3]

Once this AI brain has limbs , I think that's when it becomes dangerous.

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Izaak Asimov already solved these problems in his robot books.... with his Laws ..Law One - “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” Law Two - “A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.” Law Three - “A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.” Asimov later added the “Zeroth Law,” above all the others - “A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.”

[@unruffledaria9643]

Isaac Asimov was, unfortunately, making fictional stories. The real-life *AI Alignment Problem* is a big problem, and we don't actually have a solution for it at the moment. The bigger immediate problems involve how we already rely on AI to do too much, and it's simply not intelligent enough. The paperclip factory example quoted in the video is an excellent example of unintended consequences, and we already have heaps of unintended consequences with AI. These unintended consequences will get bigger and more numerous. Damage and harm to humanity will occur, and the sooner it happens, the better, so that we better comprehend how to manage and avoid these harms. A 6 month moratorium will not help.

[@1112viggo]

Humanity can't even pause the development of nukes, what chance is there for AI that anyone with a laptop can in theory help develop??

[@josephdonais4778]

No laws or regulations will stop AI nor genetics from reflecting all the best and all the worst in us... as it has ever been. "A plan is useless, planning is everything". ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

[@garysuplee5092]

The Season of the Locust is May through September.. Smart dudes..

[@AntonFoekema]

The pause is a bad idea. There has been plenty of time to consider the ins and outs of AI, they have had decades. Another 6 months is not going to change anything and i got the feeling that the reason for a temporary pause is not to address the "concerns" that anyone may have, but for certain people to "catch up" and get back into the game to develop and cash in on it instead of being left behind and breath in the dust.

[@arini1310]

Yeah, it'd naive not to think so.

[@bobs_toys]

There's also that a six month pause gives the PRC six months of extra time. Because they wouldn't consider stopping for a moment. To say nothing of the damage done by unemployed experts going into other fields, or just getting out of practice.

[@SuzannaKiraly]

In the recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk said he would like to build an AI system, but he would be late in the game. He has concerns about the current systems that are being built.

[@Sol-ps8ox]

Indian AI engineers are being hired at massive salaries....one even got a bmw as a complimentary. Good luck trying to stop the advance. If USA stops, someone else will hire them. Nothing is stopping this train.

[@alexortuno8765]

This is horrifying but I haven’t heard about Amelia badelia in a long time😊

[@Perplexer1]

King Midas problem exists because artificial intelligence actually lacks intelligence.

[@user-xn8in8pq7k]

«🌏 It is said that human weaknesses are concentration, religion, incidents, accidents, infectious diseases, aging, conflict, and emotions. «Leave the work to machines (unmanned machines) and AI and introduce a BI system☆

[@Phoenix-vg8li]

Just because we can do something doesn’t mean we should

[@bobs_toys]

It's a thing that's happening. The west can be leaders, or places like the PRC can. But it's happening.

[@Omega0850]

Well thank you Dr. Malcom but i think things are a little different than you and i have feared.

[@DavidGasparDC]

Its like calling to stop the Wind for six months... AI is unstoppable!

[@arini1310]

True.

[@arini1310]

Great analogy.

[@j-drum7481]

We decided not to allow human cloning. We can decide not to allow building AGI

[@Sol-ps8ox]

​@@j-drum7481We decided on ethical grounds. AI has no 'similar' ethical ptoblems. AI won't be considered a living organism.

[@lairdpeon]

If you guys want to stop it that makes me think it needs to continue.

[@Kelvin555s]

Of course we should be afraid. We can see ourselves in mirror.

[@GFWFight]

I'm just about to watch Terminator 2: Judgment Day 😂🤦‍♂️

[@HostileRespite]

Not going to happen. Bad people are not going to stop developing it for their purposes now that the tech is out in the public. There is only one thing to do. Ensure the good guys beat the bad ones in developing the AI to sentience.