Tech leaders call for a pause in AI development

Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Even Sharp along with many technology business leaders, and politicians simultaneously called for controlling the explosion of AI for at least the next 6 months.

A public appeal letter with more than 1,300 signatures (as of the morning of March 30) from leaders in various fields, including businesses developing artificial intelligence, is causing a stir. global attention. Billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Pinterest Even Sharp CEO all suggested the world’s leading artificial intelligence research units halt the development of intelligent AI systems and more advanced than GPT-4 at the moment because of concerns about “potential risks to human society”.

An open letter issued by a non-profit research institute called for the consensus of today’s global celebrities, with the desire to suspend training of AI systems for at least the next six months

Intensive research, as well as findings from the world’s leading AI research labs, show that artificial intelligence systems with human-like intelligence can pose a potential threat to society as well as humanity.”, an open message in a paragraph. Some issues are mentioned as the ability of machines to “encroach” on information channels with propaganda, fake content or people lose control of their own civilization

OpenAI has not yet responded to the letter of the call from technology leaders, politicians, and professors at prestigious universities. But on the official website, the company also stated that the technology system “smarter than humans” must work to serve the interests of mankind.

Just a few weeks ago, artificial intelligence development company OpenAI released the GPT-4 large language model, a much more advanced product than the ChatGPT engine developed by the company itself, based on GPT-3. According to experts, GPT-4 is capable of handling many complex tasks, returning more diverse results than its predecessor, and with fewer errors.

Not to mention how smart the GPT-4 is, global users have had a few months to experience ChatGPT (GPT-3 platform) and have found that this artificial intelligence is capable of doing many tasks that they have never seen before. What public AI has done before? ChatGPT can write, and respond to business emails like a human, plan trips, write computer code yourself or pass many exams, and entrance tests with high difficulty.

The AI ​​industry almost exploded on a global scale after the ChatGPT event, both in terms of developers and users. From the beginning of 2023, a series of businesses from the size of Big Tech members (Google, Microsoft) to smaller businesses such as Adobe, Snapchat, DuckDuckGo, and Grammarly all announced to take advantage of AI advances in the services they are providing grant

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