Middle East unlikely to slow down on AI, ChatGPT rollout
Astra Tech, backed by Abu Dhabi AI company G42, said it created the first Arabic language ChatGPT last Wednesday. Also this week, the number of signatories of the open letter increased more than sixfold since last Monday’s 3,000, highlighting the growing concern about unregulated AI.
While an open letter is calling for a global pause in the development of advanced AI (artificial intelligence), with thousands of signatories including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the Middle East wants to fast forward its development with its own criteria and safeguards.
On Wednesday, Astra Tech, backed by Abu Dhabi AI company G42, said it created the first Arabic language AI chatbot.
What happened: The Future of Life Institute (FLI), an American nonprofit working to reduce global technology-related catastrophes since 2014, created an open letter in late March calling on all AI labs worldwide to pause "training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4" for six months.
The systems it's referencing are mainly language learning models (LLM) that can think, learn and behave like humans that are being considered a potential risk to humanity. ChatGPT-4 is the latest such LLM released by research laboratory OpenAI and was launched last month.
