Pause For Thought: The AI Pause Debate
We expect AI technology to advance over time for two reasons. First, algorithmic progress - people learn how to make AIs in cleverer ways. Second, hardware progress - Moore’s Law produces faster, cheaper computers, so for a given budget, we can train/run the AI on more powerful hardware. A pause might slow algorithmic progress very slightly, with... See more
Scott Alexander • Pause For Thought: The AI Pause Debate
I agree. OpenAI and Meta are waiting for the delivery of the new Nvidia Chips to start training the next version of GPT and LLaMa respectively. A pause in development would not do any good.
A suggested benefit for a pause would be to focus research on alignment. I think we would have to create a regulatory mandate for alignment for it to be effective.