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RSI Encyclopedia · Event · Mar 2023
The pause letter (2023)
An open letter calls for a six month pause on training systems more powerful than GPT-4.
- Date
- Mar 2023
- Type
- Milestone
- Status
- Happened
- Era
- 2023
What happened
An open letter calls for a six month pause on training systems more powerful than GPT-4.
Why it matters
No lab paused, but the letter gathered tens of thousands of signatures and pushed the question of slowing down frontier development into newspapers, parliaments and boardrooms.
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