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* Elon Musk and other business leaders signed a letter urging a six-month pause in AI development. * But that's a pipe dream, especially as OpenAI ups the ante in the AI arms race with ChatGPT upgrades.. * Other companies know they have to act fast to keep up, making it unlikely they'll stop for any reason.
More than a thousand business leaders signed a letter urging the slowdown in developing new, more powerful large language models like ChatGPT. The letter brought up questions of the signatories' sincerity, hypocrisy, and if many of them even believed the tenets brought up in the open letter.
Many in the industry agreed that powerful AI like ChatGPT might cause some harm to society, but a six-month moratorium on development sounded like a noble fairy-tale with little grounding in reality.
From the moment the public was allowed to start testing OpenAI's GPT-3 in November, there was no stopping the bullet train of generative AI development. OpenAI, in releasing ChatGPT and kickstarting the AI arms race, opened a Pandora's Box. And the power of market forces means that there's no stopping the pace of AI development, even if companies like OpenAI wanted to.
As people (and their employers) get used to asking ChatGPT, Google's Bard, and...