News of the Cyber World

[DerVVulfman]

A.I. NEEDS TO SLOW DOWN
FOR THE GOOD OF SOCIETY

There's precious little Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk agree on these days,
with one notable exception:  AI needs to slow down.

Wozniak, Musk, and more than 1000 other business leaders signed a letter seeking guardrails and a pause on training AI models as the technology grows more powerful. The letter argues powerful AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4 "should only be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable."

It's a very good idea to slow down development of new models because if AI ends up being good for us, then there's no harm waiting months or years, we'll get to the end point anyway. If it's harmful, then we just bought ourselves extra time to strategize the best ways to respond and understand how to combat it.

It is true that ChatGPT was a blockbuster achievement, and its capabilities have been pushed to the limits. But it has now been used to pass medical licensing exams, gave instructions how to make explosives, and created an alter ego for itself. AI products including ChatGPT have already been shown to misrepresent information and make mistakes, something that Steve Wozniak had spoken about in public.  And even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted that his company's model could spit out racist, sexist and completely biased answers.



 This kinda reminds me of why DUNE has no computers (not even a calculator if you never noticed):
... from the glossary at the end of the 500+ page novel ...

The crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begun in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Bible as "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."

Predating THE MATRIX as it was written in 1967, DUNE has a backstory of AI taking control over mankind and a war that had to be waged for the freedom of humanity against the machines.