GPT has been BANNED. Should it also be paused?

Interesting week in AI. Italy Bans Chat GPT and AI thought leaders petition to pause AI development. Can you pause AI? How do you pause AI? Who exactly wants to pause AI? Let’s break it down.

Italy Bans Chat GPT

It was widely reported on Friday that Italy has become the first Western country to outlaw Chat GPT. The Italian data protection authorities stated that the model, developed by the US start-up OpenAI, raised privacy concerns. The regulator stated that it would ban and probe OpenAI "with immediate effect."

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, responded on Twitter.

Will There Be A Pause on AI?

That is the hope of many AI thought leaders. Including Elon Musk (CEO of Twitter and Tesla) Emad Mostaque (CEO of Stability AI), Steve Wozniak (Co-Founder of Apple) and 2959 others. The letter states “We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. This pause should be public and verifiable, and include all key actors. If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.” You can find the full letter here.

Is it even possible to pause the development of this technology? Will every country in the world band together to pause it? A lot of questions left to be answered.

What do you think? Should we pause AI?

AI in Music

AI is already transforming the music industry in a variety of ways, and it is projected to do so even more in the coming years. The ability of AI algorithms to analyze massive datasets of existing music to develop new compositions, melodies, and lyrics is one of the most significant benefits of AI. AI can also help musicians and producers improve the quality of their recordings by assisting with music production and audio engineering duties.

Let’s look at a couple examples. First, let’s look at a song made by AllttA. They use an AI generated voice of Jay-Z on their latest song. This makes it seem like Jay-Z is featured on the song however, his voice is entirely generated by AI.

Second, let’s take a look at popular songs sung by an AI generated voice of Kanye West. Including songs from Justin Bieber, Drake, Kid Cudi and more.