Boosting this again: the future of life institute has an open letter asking for a 6 months pause on training more powerful LLMs to focus on oversight, governance and safety.
I am not worried about AGI but it is clear to me that we haven’t even scratched the surface of what *GPT3* can do, since that is the model I’m most often working with.
What openAI and co are doing is throwing oil on the fire and unconscionable. Of course 75% of the HN comments are asking for just that.