I think Roger McNamee is generally spot on in his essay. A six-month moratorium on the development of large language models is useless. Why six months? Why not 12 or 24? Tech companies are just going to ignore it any way.
He's also right about how self regulation has failed time and again, especially in regards to tech. On the other hand, I don't trust government to respond intelligently -- at least, not until all the geriatric folk in Congress die off. The solution needs to be global, not national. And unfortunately, I don't think any country will be truly motivated to restrict AI (especially China) until something terrible happens as a result of it.
I do plan to tackle this cheerful topic eventually, at some point.
Thoughts on this? https://time.com/6268843/ai-risks-democracy-technology/
I think Roger McNamee is generally spot on in his essay. A six-month moratorium on the development of large language models is useless. Why six months? Why not 12 or 24? Tech companies are just going to ignore it any way.
He's also right about how self regulation has failed time and again, especially in regards to tech. On the other hand, I don't trust government to respond intelligently -- at least, not until all the geriatric folk in Congress die off. The solution needs to be global, not national. And unfortunately, I don't think any country will be truly motivated to restrict AI (especially China) until something terrible happens as a result of it.
I do plan to tackle this cheerful topic eventually, at some point.