By Jennifer Rigby
Apr 4, 2023
Calls to pause the development of artificial intelligence will not “solve the challenges” ahead, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told Reuters, his first public comments since an open letter sparked a debate about the future of the technology.
The technologist-turned-philanthropist said it would be better to focus on how best to use the developments in AI, as it was hard to understand how a pause could work globally.
His interview with Reuters comes after an open letter — published last week and co-signed by Elon Musk and more than 1,000 AI experts – demanded an urgent pause in the development of systems “more powerful” than Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI’s new GPT-4, which can hold human-like conversation, compose songs and summarise lengthy documents.
“I don’t think asking one particular group to pause solves the challenges,” Gates said on Monday.
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