Vitalik Buterin proposes a "global soft pause button" to cut AI computing power by 90-99% for 1-2 years — giving ample time to prepare for potent...

[Windows Central]

Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum co-founder proposes a "global soft pause button" on global hardware to prevent AI from causing existential doom.

Vitalik Buterin proposes a "global soft pause button" to cut AI computing power by 90-99% for 1-2 years — giving ample time to prepare for potent... : Read more

 

[fjtorres5591]

...and to give trailing edge tech companies a chance to catch up.
Riiighhttt...

Anybody remember Musk asking for a six month pause?
(Which he didn't get.)
Six months later he had launched Xai, bought a ton of GPUs and built a data Center to train and run GROK, his chatbot app.

Can we say "self-serving" girls and boys?

Seriously. This passes for news?

 

[adichiru]

First of all it is not possible, just impossible to implement. Secondly it is a bad move because it will solve nothing but create more tensions and disrupt international relations on other domains. Also the only way to be as safe as possible is to start as many AI companies that build models as possible and insist on open source. That's all ...

 

[fjtorres5591]

First of all it is not possible, just impossible to implement. Secondly it is a bad move because it will solve nothing but create more tensions and disrupt international relations on other domains. Also the only way to be as safe as possible is to start as many AI companies that build models as possible and insist on open source. That's all ...

Exactly.
The pundits know this, they're not stupid.
Just self-serving.
It is us they think are stupid.