# The Open Letter to "Pause All AI Development" **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [March 30, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-open-letter-to-pause-all-ai-development/981862 "2023-03-30T00:49:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 332
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-open-letter-to-pause-all-ai-development/981862/332 "2023-06-03T17:51:22Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Companies like Google are giving up on slowing down because theyre getting their asses kicked by open source LLMs, which are starting to dominate the performance metrics. Completely predictable. In fact I completely predicted it. > [@Artificial intelligence (singulairty) within a few months?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artificial-intelligence-singulairty-within-a-few-months/981324/57): > > Until in a while somebody produces a rival that is open source. Remember all the buzz about Dall-E 2? And the expensive renders at their site, if you ever got off the waiting list for their tightly curated site? Except that Stable Diffusion came along as open source, free to use, free to download, free to modify? Nobody is buzzing about Dall-E 2 anymore, it became an instant also-ran. There is no reason that the same thing cannot and will not happen with LLMs. The interest is there and sooner o… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-open-letter-to-pause-all-ai-development/981862)._