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Looks like a group of people who have read more science fiction than science. The people who really understand AI technology are not on the list of signatories
by pclmulqdq 4y ago
Looks like a group of people who have read more science fiction than science. The people who really understand AI technology are not on the list of signatories at all.
- DSingularity 4y agoBengio?
- pclmulqdq 4y agoNo, he's just behind on LLMs/transformers and wants his competitors to give him space to catch up. That's the other group of signatories I saw (albeit much smaller than the sci fi lovers). Elon Musk is both: he's behind and reads too much science fiction.
- labrador 4y agoYuddites
- adeon 4y agoI think even close experts are not immune to hype, FOMO or FUD. Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng are also big names and they didn't sign (I presume?). So not even experts agree with each other. I think it's a bit silly to list founder/CEO-types and take their opinions as if they know the topic well, unless they have the appropriate AI-related background.
- dragonwriter 4y agoA number of those people are pioneers of important AI technologies (I don’t know if they are verified signatories or not), but I don’t necessarily see that as a particularly strong basis for accepting their judgement on a “pause” policy. The technical nature of the problem is a tiny piece of the claimed impact, and an even smaller piece of the question of whether the proposed policy would, in fact, resolve any real problem and do so without causing greater harms than it prevents.