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Musk, scientists call for halt to AI race sparked by ChatGPT
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Musk, scientists call for halt to AI race sparked by ChatGPT

[ad_1] Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could one day outsmart humans? That's the conclusion of a group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables such as Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak who are calling for a 6-month pause to consider the risks. Their petition published Wednesday is a response to San Francisco startup OpenAI's recent release of GPT-4, a more advanced successor to its widely-used AI chatbot ChatGPT that helped spark a race among tech giants Microsoft and Google to unveil similar applications. WHAT DO THEY SAY? The letter warns that AI systems with “human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and...