Gates says pausing AI development 'will not solve the problem' -

Bill Gates doesn’t think demanding a six-month halt to advanced development is going to be easy.

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Bill Gates said he doesn’t think it’s practical to halt advanced AI development for six months.
He told Reuters he did not believe such a moratorium would help solve the challenges in the sector.
His comments come a week after an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on advanced AI development.

Two of the biggest names in technology seem to disagree about artificial intelligence, or AI.

Elon Musk has called for a six-month halt to advanced AI development and a step back from “dangerous competition,” but Bill Gates doesn’t think this is the way to go.

“I don’t think asking certain groups to pause will solve the problem,” the Microsoft co-founder told Reuters in an interview on Monday.

He made his comments a week after 1,125 people, including Elon Musk and AI experts, signed an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on advanced development of the technology. The letter, published by the non-profit Future of Life Institute, has so far collected nearly 9,400 signatures.

The letter warned that “AI systems with intelligence that competes with humans could pose serious risks to society and humanity,” citing ongoing debates about ethical and other concerns surrounding advanced AI. Added to Generative text bot ChatGPT.

But Gates said he doesn’t think the proposed moratorium will be easy to implement. “I really don’t understand who they say can be stopped, why every country in the world agrees to stop, and why they should,” he told Reuters.

In his comments to the press, Gates said two weeks after publishing a seven-page letter on his blog titled “The Age of AI Has Begun,” he said, “Developing AI is as basic as building a microprocessor. , PCs, the Internet, and mobile phones.” In 2019, Microsoft invested $1 billion in ChatGPT creator OpenAI, and recently announced plans to invest more, says Insider’s Grace Kay. reporting.

But Gates isn’t the only famous voice to warn about a pause in AI development.

Last week, billionaire investor Bill Ackman warned that halting AI development for six months would give bad actors another six months to catch up with current technology.

“Our enemies are working hard to develop their own OpenAI. It would have been a mistake to delay the Manhattan Project and catch up with the Nazis. I don’t think we have a choice.” Ackman tweeted March 31st.