The Six Month Pause on Training AIs Bigger Than GPT-4

30,000 people have signed an open letter calling for a six month pause on training AIs bigger than GPT-4. The group behind the letter has put out a list of concrete policy proposals they would like people to discuss during the pause. Jeffrey Hinton, probably the most accomplished AI scientist in the world, says that it may be 20 years before we have general purpose AI.