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Mortal-Region t1_jebev1o wrote

Yeah, bonehead move -- seems they just set up a simple web form.

But what's suspicious to me is that the letter specifically calls for a pause on "AI systems more powerful than GPT-4." Not self-driving AI or stable diffusion or anything else. GPT-4 is the culprit that needs to be paused for six months.

Then, of course, there's the problem that there's no way to pause China, Russia, or any other authoritarian regime. I've never heard a real solution to that. It's more like the AI-head-start-for-authoritarian-regimes letter.

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AlFrankensrevenge t1_jecmsuz wrote

Image generators and self-driving cars don't create the same kinds of extensive risk that GPT4 does. GPT4 is much more directly on the path to AGI and superintelligence. Even now, it will substantially impact something like 80% of jobs according to OpenAI itself. The other technologies are a big deal, but don't ramify through the entire economy to the same extent.

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