AI Leaders Urge Labs to Halt Training Models More Powerful Than ChatGPT-4
- Over 1,100 industry leaders, experts call for six-month pause
- Open letter warns of ‘out-of-control race’ to develop AI
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Artificial intelligence experts and industry leaders, including Elon Musk, University of California Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell and Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak, are calling on developers to hit the pause button on training powerful AI models.
More than 1,100 people in the industry signed a petition calling for a six-month break from training artificial intelligence systems more powerful than the latest iteration behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT, in order to allow for the development of shared safety protocols.