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Earlier this week, a group of more than 1,800 artificial intelligence (AI) leaders and technologists ranging from Elon Musk to Steve Wozniak issued an open letter calling on all AI labs to immediately pause development for six months on AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 due to “profound risks to society and humanity.”
While a pause could serve to help better understand and regulate the societal risks created by generative AI, some argue that it’s also an attempt for lagging competitors to catch up on AI research with leaders in the space like OpenAI.
According to Gartner distinguished VP analyst Avivah Litan, who spoke with VentureBeat about the issue, “The six-month pause is a plea to stop the training of models more powerful than GPT-4. GPT 4.5 will soon be followed by GPT-5, which is expected to achieve AGI (artificial general intelligence). Once AGI arrives, it will likely be too late to institute safety controls that effectively guard human use of these systems.”
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