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Beijing, May 3 (Xinhua) in response to Musk and other thousands of people calling for a moratorium on advanced artificial intelligence (AI) development, Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horwitz (Eric Horvitz) gave the opposite view. He believes that what AI really needs is accelerated investment, not a pause.

At the end of March, the nonprofit Institute for the Future of Life issued an open letter at the end of March saying that AI Labs was "caught in an out-of-control development and deployment race" without sufficient security protocols, calling for a six-month suspension of the development of a more powerful AI system than GPT-4, which OpenAI launched earlier that month. The letter was supported by industry insiders and executives including Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Steve Wozniak).

Horwitz said in an interview that while he respects those who signed the letter and understands that there may be concerns about AI, he believes that "acceleration" is actually necessary, not a pause. " I really respect those who sign the open letter, "he said." I think it is reasonable for people to be worried. As far as I am concerned, I prefer to see more knowledge and even speed up research and development, rather than a six-month suspension. I'm not sure if the pause is feasible. To some extent, this is a very ambiguous requirement. "

"in a broader sense, a six-month pause doesn't make much sense," he continued. "We really need to invest more in understanding, mentoring and even regulating the technology, and participate in it, not pause it."

Microsoft has invested tens of billions of dollars in OpenAI and has integrated ChatGPT into Bing search. For Microsoft, ChatGPT is crucial to whether it can challenge the dominance of Google search.

Earlier, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (Sam Altman) had responded to the open letter. "I very much agree with some of the main points of this letter, but there is a lack of technical details about where the pause is needed," he said at a recent event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Musk is not the only one worried about AI. Geoffrey Hinton, a computer scientist known as the godfather of AI, announced his resignation from Google on Monday to make it easier for him to talk openly about AI risks. Hinton says he regrets playing a fundamental role in developing AI.

On Tuesday, Musk expressed support for Hinton's warning of AI risks, saying that "Hinton knows what he is talking about."

Mr Musk supported Mr Hinton Musk, who co-founded OpenAI with Altman and others in 2015, but left the board in 2018 publicly to avoid a possible conflict of interest with Tesla, but Mr Musk later said another factor was that he "did not agree with some of the things the OpenAI team wanted to do". Since stepping down from the board of OpenAI, Musk has repeatedly criticized the company, believing that OpenAI has become a closed-source company controlled by Microsoft and pursuing profit maximization.

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