Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI¡¯s newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society.
Earlier this month, Microsoft-backed OpenAI unveiled the fourth iteration of its GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) AI program, which has wowed users by engaging them in human-like conversation, composing songs and summarizing lengthy documents.
¡°Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable,¡± said the letter issued by the Future of Life Institute.
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