Tech leaders such as Bill Gates and tycoons like Musk call for a pause in the artificial intelligence race
Can Artificial Intelligence Help Openai, Opentable, Instacart, Expedia, OpenTable and e+e- Become a Metaapp? A Petition from the Future of Life Institute
Last week, OpenAI, the company behind the chatGPT platform, announced that a bunch of companies including Expedia, Opentable, and Instacart had created extensions to let the bot access their services. The user will be able to have a bot perform tasks that they would need to use the web or open an app in, and hopefully it will work out.
Linxi “Jim” Fan, an Artificial intelligence scientist at Nvidia, thinks it’s a genius move. The process of integrating newplugins should be very smooth because of the ability to read documentation and interpret code by ChatGPT. He thinks it could help Openai take down Apple and other companies that use their stores to promote their products. The next generation of chatgpp is expected to be like a meta app that uses other apps.
The letter said that Advanced Artificial intelligence could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth. Despite recent months, the level of planning and management is not happening, because no one else can understand, predict or reliably control the digital minds that are locked in an out-of-control race.
Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak are among the dozens of tech leaders, professors and researchers who signed the letter, which was published by the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit backed by Musk.
Lian Jye Su, an analyst at ABI Research, said the letter shows legitimate concerns among tech leaders over the unregulated usage of AI technologies. He called part of the petition ridiculous, including the idea of asking for a hiatus inAI development beyond GPT-4. He said this could help some of the people who signed the letter preserve their dominance in the field.
Artificial intelligence experts are becoming more concerned about the potential for biased responses, the ability to spread misinformation, and the impact on consumer privacy. These tools have also sparked questions around how AI can upend professions, enable students to cheat, and shift our relationship with technology.
On Musk’s Discontent with Artificial Intelligence: How OpenAI Meets Google, Facebook, and the Restricted Future of AI Governance
Musk criticized Openai after he left the company three years later. Gates cofounded Microsoft, which has invested billions of dollars in OpenAI.
“Corporate ambitions and desire for dominance often triumph over ethical concerns,” Su said. “I won’t be surprised if these organizations are already testing something more advanced than ChatGPT or [Google’s] Bard as we speak.”
The letter hints at the broader discomfort with the rapid pace of advancement of artificial intelligence inside and outside the industry. Some governing agencies in China, the EU and Singapore have previously introduced early versions of AI governance frameworks.
