{"id":450,"date":"2023-05-05T21:12:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T21:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2023-05-05T21:12:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T21:12:02","slug":"a-note-from-ray-kurzweil-on-the-recent-call-to-pause-work-on-ai-more-powerful-than-gpt-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"A Note From Ray Kurzweil on the Recent Call to Pause Work on AI More Powerful Than GPT-4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_91\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><em><strong>Editor\u2019s Notice<\/strong>: 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\u2019s father or mother firm, in response to the Way forward for Life Institute\u2019s latest letter, \u201cPause Large AI Experiments: An Open Letter.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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\u2019s GPT-4, the massive language mannequin behind the corporate\u2019s ChatGPT Plus and Microsoft\u2019s Bing chatbot. The FLI letter has hundreds of signatories\u2014together with deep studying pioneer, Yoshua Bengio, College of California Berkeley professor of pc science, Stuart Russell, Stability AI CEO, Emad Mostaque, Elon Musk, and plenty of others\u2014and has stirred vigorous debate within the AI neighborhood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Relating to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/open-letter\/pause-giant-ai-experiments\" rel=\"noopener\">open letter<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cpause\u201d analysis on AI \u201cextra highly effective than\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/product\/gpt-4\" rel=\"noopener\">GPT-4<\/a>,\u201d this criterion is simply too imprecise to be sensible. And the proposal faces a severe coordination downside: people who conform to a pause could fall far behind firms or nations that disagree. There are super advantages to advancing AI in crucial fields comparable to drugs and well being, schooling, pursuit of renewable vitality sources to exchange fossil fuels, and scores of different fields. I didn\u2019t signal, as a result of I consider we will deal with the signers\u2019 security considerations in a extra tailor-made manner that doesn\u2019t compromise these important strains of analysis.<\/p>\n<p>I participated within the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/open-letter\/ai-principles\" rel=\"noopener\">Asilomar AI Principles Conference<\/a> 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 crucial concern. However extra nuance is required if we want to unlock AI\u2019s profound benefits to well being and productiveness whereas avoiding the actual perils.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<em>Ray Kurzweil<\/em><br \/>Inventor, best-selling creator, and futurist<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-343225 noshadow\" title=\"autograph - Ray Kurzweil - no. 400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/autograph-Ray-Kurzweil-no.-400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"192\"\/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture Credit score: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@deepmind?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">DeepMind<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/collections\/8813167\/curation\/718d2abb17ce1209e03433ae81985886?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2023\/05\/05\/a-note-from-ray-kurzweil-on-the-recent-call-to-pause-work-on-ai-more-powerful-than-gpt-4\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Notice: 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\u2019s father or mother firm, in response to the Way forward for Life Institute\u2019s latest letter, \u201cPause Large AI Experiments: An Open Letter.\u201d The FLI letter addresses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[555,559,554,552,556,558,553,557],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-call","tag-gpt4","tag-kurzweil","tag-note","tag-pause","tag-powerful","tag-ray","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}