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It's way too late, pandoras box is open, and it's entirely the wrong approach to try to halt or slow research in any case IMHO. With GPT-2 etc, while impressi
by jacknews 4y ago
It's way too late, pandoras box is open, and it's entirely the wrong approach to try to halt or slow research in any case IMHO.
With GPT-2 etc, while impressive and even useful, it wasn't entirely clear what the returns on further investment/scaling were going to be.
I think GPT-3, and especially GPT-4 has shown that as you scale beyond certain points, you get vastly better results.
So the race is now on toward full AGI, and as with all competitions, the winner takes all or nearly all.
If the most ethical companies halt or slow research, then progress will be dictated by less ethical companies. And IMHO 'less knowledge' is rarely the answer to anything.
It may be a game that's better not played, and maybe we'll get a 'CND' movement some time in the future, but for now there's no stopping development, and I think it's important that the more ethical institutions triumph or at least stay in the race.