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Develop your reading and writing skills by reading anarticle about AI
Participle clauses
Reading comprehension
Comprehension exercise
⏰ ~10-15 minutes
👥 Together with classmate(s)
🎯 Develop your grammar skills
✏️ Rewriting sentences into participle clauses
The verb in the ING-form (present participle):
When I realised that it was too difficult, I asked for help.
As I was stepping on to the stage, I took a deep breath.
I handed back the wallet I took and I admitted that stealing was wrong.
The third form of a verb (past participle):
Because the students gave the right answers, the class nodded in agreement.
Since he saw it from afar, he knew that danger was coming.
She was impressed by the cooking and decided to order another dish.
Having + the third form of a verb (perfect participle):
I got tired because I had been reading for hours.
Because he had lost his phone, he needed to buy a new one.
Since he had been single for so long, she thought she would never find true love.
A preposition + ING-form of a verb (present participle):
I took a shower after I had exercised.
I was sleeping and I accidentally kicked my cat.
I washed my hands for 30 seconds before eating dinner.
Begin with the verb in the ING-form (present participle):
Realising that it was too difficult, I asked for help.
Stepping on to the stage, I took a deep breath.
Handing back the wallet I took, I admitted that stealing was wrong.
Begin with the third form of a verb (past participle):
Given the right answers, the students/class nodded in agreement.
Seen from afar, he knew that danger was coming.
Impressed by the cooking, she decided to order another dish.
Begin with having + the third form of a verb (perfect participle):
Having read for hours, I got tired.
Having lost his phone, he needed to buy a new one.
Having been single for so long, she thought she would never find true love.
Begin with a preposition + ING-form of a verb (present participle):
After exercising, I took a shower.
While sleeping, I accidentally kicked my cat.
Before eating dinner, I washed my hands for 30 seconds.
⏰ ~20-30 minutes
👥 Together with your classmates and by yourself
🎯 Improve reading comprehension
✏️ Complete the vocabulary worksheet and read the open letter
You are going to read about the Turing test:
Together with a classmate, complete the vocabulary exercise below by connecting definitions with words.
We will read Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter together, taking turns reading.
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.
Published 22 March, 2023
AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs. As stated in the widely-endorsed Asilomar AI Principles, Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with commensurate care and resources. Unfortunately, this level of planning and management is not happening, even though recent months have seen AI labs locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy ever more powerful digital minds that no one – not even their creators – can understand, predict, or reliably control.
Contemporary AI systems are now becoming human-competitive at general tasks, and we must ask ourselves: Should we let machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth? Should we automate away all the jobs, including the fulfilling ones? Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us? Should we risk loss of control of our civilization? Such decisions must not be delegated to unelected tech leaders. Powerful AI systems should be developed only once we are confident that their effects will be positive and their risks will be manageable. This confidence must be well justified and increase with the magnitude of a system’s potential effects. OpenAI’s recent statement regarding artificial general intelligence, states that “At some point, it may be important to get independent review before starting to train future systems, and for the most advanced efforts to agree to limit the rate of growth of compute used for creating new models.” We agree. That point is now.
Therefore, 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.
AI labs and independent experts should use this pause to jointly develop and implement a set of shared safety protocols for advanced AI design and development that are rigorously audited and overseen by independent outside experts. These protocols should ensure that systems adhering to them are safe beyond a reasonable doubt. This does not mean a pause on AI development in general, merely a stepping back from the dangerous race to ever-larger unpredictable black-box models with emergent capabilities.
AI research and development should be refocused on making today’s powerful, state-of-the-art systems more accurate, safe, interpretable, transparent, robust, aligned, trustworthy, and loyal.
In parallel, AI developers must work with policymakers to dramatically accelerate development of robust AI governance systems. These should at a minimum include: new and capable regulatory authorities dedicated to AI; oversight and tracking of highly capable AI systems and large pools of computational capability; provenance and watermarking systems to help distinguish real from synthetic and to track model leaks; a robust auditing and certification ecosystem; liability for AI-caused harm; robust public funding for technical AI safety research; and well-resourced institutions for coping with the dramatic economic and political disruptions (especially to democracy) that AI will cause.
Humanity can enjoy a flourishing future with AI. Having succeeded in creating powerful AI systems, we can now enjoy an “AI summer” in which we reap the rewards, engineer these systems for the clear benefit of all, and give society a chance to adapt. Society has hit pause on other technologies with potentially catastrophic effects on society. We can do so here. Let’s enjoy a long AI summer, not rush unprepared into a fall.
Used with permission from the authors.
Source: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
Choose the broad or the narrow path to discuss Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
Both include similar discussion exercises, but at different challenge levels
⏰~20 minutes
👥 Together with classmate(s)
🎯 Reinforce what you have learned about about participle clauses and AI
✏️ Discuss and write your answers in your logbook
The authors believe AI systems with human-like intelligence pose risks. Do you agree or disagree?
The authors believe these AI systems pose risks and I agree/disagree ... because ...
What concerns are raised about the current state of AI development? Give 3 examples.
The concerns raised include 1) ... 2) ... and 3) ...
Hint! Think of how information is shared today, bots, and how different jobs might be affected
What potential benefits and drawbacks could arise from pausing AI development?
I believe the benefits are ... and the drawbacks are ...
Ask an AI the same three questions that you answered above. Compare your answers: how similar or dissimilar are they?
Decide on one question that you write about in your logbook and that you will share with the rest of the class. This is your exit ticket.
⏰~20 minutes
👥 Together with classmate(s)
🎯 Reinforce what you have learned about about participle clauses and AI
✏️ Discuss and write your answers in your logbook as participle clauses
The authors believe AI systems pose risks because they can be unpredictable, uncontrollable, and may flood information channels, and potentially outsmart and replace humans. Think of bots, propaganda, automate jobs, or so-called "AI slop".
Give 3 examples where AI are, or might, be doing these things.
The proposed AI governance systems are meant to regulate the use of AI and follow-up on AI-caused harm.
Who do you believe should be held responsible -- the researchers, users or AI?
What potential benefits and drawbacks could arise from pausing AI development?
The text mentions that society has hit pause on other technologies with potentially catastrophic effects.
What historical examples could they allude to?
Ask an AI the same three questions that you answered above. Compare your answers: how similar or dissimilar are they?
Decide on one question that you write about in your logbook and that you will share with the rest of the class. This is your exit ticket.
Study participle clauses for the quiz
Narrow path: also study the vocabulary
Write your thoughts about the open letter in your logbook and share the thoughts with the class