Elon Musk asks to pause training new large AI models, Andrew Ng says NO!

If you haven't heard, there was a petition lately that was signed by some of the top voices in the AI industry.

The petition asked for halting the training of AI systems that are more powerful than GPT-4 for a period of 6 months.

Here's the most important snippet from the letter:

This letter reflects some of the fears that top AI actors are having when it comes to training powerful models such as ChatGPT and GPT-4.

Although this petition was signed by many AI leaders, there were other leaders who gave a firm NO answer!

One of these leaders who said no, is Andrew Ng.

Here's a tweet that Andrew Ng shared:

Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg 1/The call for a 6 month moratorium on making AI progress beyond GPT-4 is a terrible idea. I'm seeing many new applications in education, healthcare, food, ... that'll help many people. Improving GPT-4 will help. Lets balance the huge value AI is creating vs. realistic risks. March 29th 2023 1,867 Retweets 8,988 Likes

Andrew Ng has had a big impact on many machine learning engineers careers so far. His course about machine learning was an important step that many ML engineers went through during their learning journey, including me.

This difference in opinion between AI leaders is a healthy thing in my opinion. We need both sides of the argument before we can make a good decision. Which side are you on?

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