After the massive development that began to enter the world of artificial intelligence, especially with the latest version of Chat GBT, the American billionaire Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and executives called, in an open letter, to stop for a period of six months from developing more powerful systems than the chat bot (Chat). GPT-4) recently released by OpenAI, citing the potential risks of such applications to society.
The letter from the Future Institute of Life, which has been signed by more than 1,000 people, also notes that “strong AI systems should be developed only when we are confident that their effects will be positive, and that their risks will be controlled.”
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In addition, she asked, “Should we allow machines to flood our media channels with propaganda and lies?… Should we develop non-human minds that may outnumber us and ultimately be smarter and outperform us and replace us?”
“Such decisions should not be delegated to unelected tech leaders,” she added.
While the European Union Transparency Record revealed that the main financiers of this non-profit organization (Future of Life) are the Musk Foundation, the London-based Founders Pledge Group, as well as the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
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No response from OpenAI.
On the other hand, OpenAI has not yet responded to the open letter, which demanded that development of AI systems be halted until independent experts come up with common safety protocols.
It is noteworthy that Musk had announced earlier this month that “artificial intelligence is making him very nervous,” even though he is one of the founders of the leading “Open AI” company, and his company, Tesla, uses artificial intelligence in self-driving systems.
This message came after the Microsoft-backed OpenAI company revealed, earlier this month (March 2023), the fourth version of the artificial intelligence program (GBT Chat), which won the admiration of users by engaging them In conversation similar to human conversations and help them compose songs and summarize long documents.
It also came after the European Police Agency (Europol) warned last Monday of the danger of using the application in electronic deception attempts, dissemination of misinformation and cybercrime.
