I also urge you to read this just-published message: Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter.

Saying it like it is are @timnitGebru, @meg, @emilymbender and Angelina McMillan-Major. Anyone interested in the topic of generative models should of course be following them all and reading their work.

Quote: «While we are not surprised to see this type of letter from a longtermist organization like the Future of Life Institute, which is generally aligned with a vision of the future in which we become radically enhanced posthumans, colonize space, and create trillions of digital people, we are dismayed to see the number of computing professionals who have signed this letter, and the positive media coverage it has received. It is dangerous to distract ourselves with a fantasized AI-enabled utopia or apocalypse which promises either a "flourishing" or "potentially catastrophic" future. Such language that inflates the capabilities of automated systems and anthropomorphizes them, as we note in Stochastic Parrots, deceives people into thinking that there is a sentient being behind the synthetic media. This not only lures people into uncritically trusting the outputs of systems like ChatGPT, but also misattributes agency. Accountability properly lies not with the artifacts but with their builders.»

FULL TEXT here:
https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023

#AIHype #AIEthics #DigitalEthics