The AI genie is out of the bottle, riding on a horse that has left the barn, and I wish good luck to anyone attempting to pause AI development and training for 6 minutes, let alone six months.
"Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter" is a call to action (or inaction) signed without irony by, among others, Elon Musk (he founded OpenAI with Sam Altman in 2015 before walking away), and the core ask is fairly simple: "We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4." It means that a growing number of experts are terrified by what they've seen of OpenAI's GPT-4 (and perhaps earlier and competing AIs like Google Bard, and Bing AI, which uses a custom blend of ChatGPT).
