Max Tegmark

Oh, you might see the Colosseum.

So they had edited it.

So they literally moved it to Rome.

But the way it's storing this information, it's incredibly dumb for any fellow nerds listening to this.

There was a big matrix and it was...

And roughly speaking, there are certain row and column vectors which encode these things, and they correspond very hand-wavelessly to principal components.

And it would be much more efficient for a sparse matrix just to store in the database.

And everything so far we've figured out how these things do are ways where you can see they can easily be improved.

And the fact that this particular architecture has some roadblocks built into it is in no way going to prevent...

crafty researchers from quickly finding workarounds and making other kinds of architectures sort of go all the way.

In short, it's turned out to be a lot easier to build close to human intelligence than we thought.

And that means our runway as a species,

And more data and more compute.

Or a lot of little leaps here and there because so much of this is out in the open also.

so many smart people are looking at this and trying to figure out little leaps here and there.

And it becomes this sort of collective race where a lot of people feel, if I don't take the leap, someone else will.

And this is actually very crucial for the other part of it.

Why do we want to slow this down?

So again, what this open letter is calling for is just pausing all training of systems that are more powerful than GPT-4 for six months.

give a chance for the labs to coordinate a bit on safety and for society to adapt, give the right incentives to the labs.