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Leaders like Elon Musk want to pause AI development, but the power of the free market mean it’s impossible to stop

More than a thousand business leaders signed a letter urging the slowdown in developing new, more powerful large language models like ChatGPT. The letter brought up questions of the signatories’ sincerity, hypocrisy, and if many of them even believed the tenets brought up in the open letter.

Many in the industry agreed that powerful AI like ChatGPT might cause some harm to society, but a six-month moratorium on development sounded like a noble fairy-tale with little grounding in reality.

From the moment the public was allowed to start testing OpenAI’s GPT-3 in November, there was no stopping the bullet train of generative AI development. OpenAI, in releasing ChatGPT and kickstarting the AI arms race, opened a Pandora’s Box.  And the power of market forces means that there’s no stopping the pace of AI development, even if companies like OpenAI wanted to.

Read more here: https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-elon-musk-pause-development-letter-never-happen-2023-4