Breaking news: The letter that I mentioned earlier today is now public. It calls for a 6 month moratorium on training systems that are “more powerful than GPT-4”. A lot of notable people signed. I joined in.

I had no hand in drafting it, and there are things to fuss over (e.g., what exactly counts as more powerful than GPT-4? and how would we know, given that no details of GPT-4’s architecture or training set have been published?)—but the spirit of the letter is one that I support: until we get a better handle on the risks and benefits, we should proceed with caution.

It will be very interesting to see what happens next. Read More