{"id":162821,"date":"2023-04-26T00:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T05:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/opinion-letter-from-ray-kurzweil-on-request-for-6-month-delay-on-large-language-models-that-go-beyond-gpt-4-kurzweil"},"modified":"2023-04-26T00:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T05:23:14","slug":"opinion-letter-from-ray-kurzweil-on-request-for-6-month-delay-on-large-language-models-that-go-beyond-gpt-4-kurzweil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/opinion-letter-from-ray-kurzweil-on-request-for-6-month-delay-on-large-language-models-that-go-beyond-gpt-4-kurzweil","title":{"rendered":"Opinion letter from Ray Kurzweil on request for 6 month delay on large language models that go beyond GPT-4 \u00ab Kurzweil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/opinion-letter-from-ray-kurzweil-on-request-for-6-month-delay-on-large-language-models-that-go-beyond-gpt-4-kurzweil.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kurzweil says NO, on AI pause non sense.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" title=\"photo - AI chat + mobile - no. 1\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/opinion-letter-from-ray-kurzweil-on-request-for-6-month-delay-on-large-language-models-that-go-beyond-gpt-4-kurzweil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"569\"><\/p>\n<p>By Ray Kurzweil April 2023<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/open-letter\/pause-giant-ai-experiments\" target=\"_blank\">Open Letter<\/a> to \u201cpause\u201d research on AI \u201cmore powerful than <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/product\/gpt-4\" target=\"_blank\">GPT-4<\/a>,\u201d this criterion is too vague to be practical. And the proposal faces a serious coordination problem: those that agree to a pause may fall far behind corporations or nations that disagree. There are tremendous benefits to advancing AI in critical fields such as medicine and health, education, pursuit of renewable energy sources to replace fossil fuels, and scores of other fields. I didn\u2019t sign, because I believe we can address the signers\u2019 safety concerns in a more tailored way that doesn\u2019t compromise these vital lines of research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurzweil says NO, on AI pause non sense. By Ray Kurzweil April 2023 Regarding the Open Letter to \u201cpause\u201d research on AI \u201cmore powerful than GPT-4,\u201d this criterion is too vague to be practical. And the proposal faces a serious coordination problem: those that agree to a pause may fall far behind corporations or nations [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,1495,2018,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-health","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}