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On March 29, Elon Musk and a group of AI experts signed an open letter calling for a moratorium on developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems that are more powerful than OpenAI’s recently launched large language model (LLM), GPT-4.
The letter had over 1,300 signatories and it called on all AI labs to immediately pause, for at least six months, training of any systems more powerful than GPT-4.

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) issued a letter citing one of the Asilomar AI principles on how advances in AI could profoundly impact people’s lives.
The Asilomar AI Principles are one of the earliest sets of AI governing principles laid out at the Beneficial AI 2017 conference hosted by FLI.
FLI’s open letter comes amid rapid development and deployment of AI technology in several industries since there has been a dramatic rise in the adoption of AI by many firms.

Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) are a series of models that are trained on the vast amount of data to act like human text. Chat GPT is one of its variants.
On the other hand, GPT-4 is more advanced than its predecessors regarding visual comprehension, creativity and text.
It can work with users on a variety of creative projects, such as music, scripts, technical writing, etc. and process up to 25,000 words of text facilitating extended conversations and also accepting images as inputs.
It is more multilingual and outperforms GPT-3.5 and other LLMs by accurately answering thousands of multiple-choice across 26 languages.
It handles English best with an 85.5% accuracy, along with Indian languages like Telugu with an accuracy of 71.4%.

The Alphabet-owned Google launched Bard, a version of its Lamda language model.
In China, Internet giant Baidu has launched Ernie, an AI-powered chatbot that can summarise financial statements
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s media lab has developed ELSA, an AI bot that can act as a psychotherapy counsellor. It could potentially be deployed in cognitive behavioural therapy sessions.

Such multi-modal advances give GPT-4 scale to get closer to artificial general intelligence (AGI). That means machine intelligence could be as good as human intelligence.
The potential negative aspect of AGI could come with serious risks of misuse, drastic accidents, and societal disruption.
According to some developers and tech entrepreneurs, GPT-5 could be indistinguishable from humans, and the language model could achieve AGI by the end of this year.
Since there are no regulations in place to enforce a ban on developing AI nor the governments have any policy tools to halt work in AI development, this may lead to disastrous consequences.