The Dangerous Race for Advanced AI: A Nuclear Arms Race of the 21st Century?

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, compared the company's work on artificial intelligence to the Manhattan Project, which developed the first nuclear weapons during World War II. OpenAI's latest deep learning model, GPT-4, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks. After its release, more than 2,000 tech experts and leaders signed a letter calling for a pause on research at AI labs. Altman warns that the hype over AI is currently "out of control" and supports a pause to create safeguards and rules on artificial intelligence.