Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said: Twitter CEO Elon Musk Others in the tech community calling for a moratorium on “giant AI experiments” were not the right way to address this issue.
Musk, Steve Wozniak, and other tech leaders signed a letter in March urging AI developers to “immediately suspend training for AI systems stronger than GPT-4 for at least six months.”
Altman addressed the letter during a virtual appearance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday.
“There’s the thrust part that I really agree with,” Altman said, adding that his team spent more than six months completing training. Chat GPT 4 Research safety components before release.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson, File)
“So I completely agree,” Altman told the safety portion of the letter. I don’t think is the best way to deal with it.”
The letter was produced by the Future of Life Institute and has over 1,000 signatures.
“Strong AI systems should only be developed when we believe their effects are positive and their risks manageable,” the letter said, adding that the suspension will be used to develop safety protocols. It argues that it should
“The AI Lab and independent experts will use this pause to jointly develop a shared set of safety protocols for advanced AI design and development that will be rigorously audited and supervised by independent external experts. should be developed and implemented in ,” the letter said.
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Elon Musk (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
But the letter’s signatories said AI development as a whole should not be put on hold, saying that it would “retreat from dangerous competition to ever-larger, unpredictable black-box models with new capabilities.” ” asked.
In an interview on Monday night’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, Musk said AI has the potential to be very disruptive.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks at a keynote announcing Bing’s ChatGPT integration at Microsoft on February 7, 2023 in Redmond, Wash. (Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images)
“AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance, or poor car production,” Musk said. “In the sense that it has potential, no matter how small that potential is, it is non-trivial, but it can destroy civilization.”
Fox News’ Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
