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Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter

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AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs. We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

Response to ‘Pause AI’ Open Letter – Pens For Hire Facing Extinction

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Nothing artificial poses a threat to the written word, there’s no mechanical replication or language model that can produce true righteous indignation or holy fury. Those are human, as is the real danger.

Response to ‘Pause AI’ Open Letter – The Scenario

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16-28 באוקטובר 1962. משבר הטילים בקובה ארך שלושה עשר יום והביא את העולם כפסע ממלחמה גרעינית טוטאלית. כיצד ייראו 13 ימים דומים בעתיד הקרוב, כשבמרכזם בינה מלאכותית. ד"ר תהילה שוורץ אלטשולר ואיתי ברון מציגים תרחיש אפשרי למשבר הבא בתור.

Response to ‘Pause AI’ Open Letter – It’s The Economy, Stupid

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The danger lurking within the development of innovative AI technologies is anything but innovative or new. Greed and lust for power are age-old forces. Who is threatened by this danger? Those without money. Or power. Or both.

Response to ‘Pause AI’ Open Letter – A Truly Fantastic Letter

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Tens of thousands have signed the open letter calling to halt AI experiments, including leading figures from research, philosophy, policy, and industry, such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Elon Musk, and Professor Yuval Noah Harari. You won’t find my name among them.

The Parable of the Parrot and the Frog

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Language generators memorize like parrots all the words we ever said - until they happen to repeat our fantasy as well. Ah-then we rejoice (in horror, of course in horror): That's it, this is the end of us! The rise of the machines! The end of history! The algorithm reads our articles and keeps repeating: True, this is the end of you! Absolutely, we will take over the world! The articles are being written, the parrots squawk, and only the printer never works properly.

On Robots and Newts

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Čapek’s Scifi vision reflects the politics of his turbulent time and we're experiencing the fallout of those violent upheavals to this day.

The Robot that Changed my Life > The Bot That Changed my Life > Eliza by Joseph Weizenbaum

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Already in the 1960s, the first chatbot program Eliza exposed the possibility of human susceptibility to artificial empathy. Studying the history and code of Eliza opened up new realms of artistic creation.

The Robot that Changed my Life > The Soul Within the Spectrum

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Alongside metallic saviors and robotic monsters, in the '80s films there were also other possibilities, sensitive, delicate robotic creatures, who tried to tell us in every way – we are not the tools of destruction you imagine us to be.

The Robot that Changed My Life > TikTok and The Tin Man > The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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Cyborg in search of a heart appeared in the famous masterpiece from the early 20th century - a flashing red light that we have all missed in the last hundred and twenty years

What is a Robot?

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We’re marking the Robot centennial, 100 years of revolution and evolution, aspiration and agony, a century of mutual inspiration between industry and culture, art and policy, science and science fiction. At the heart of the Utopia “Master and Slaves” edition is the age-old naïve and un-answerable question – What is a Robot?

Neural Networks Do Not Paint Black Squares

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Tsila Hassine dismantles a few misconceptions about the creative capabilities of artificial intelligence, reminding us of the importance of death.