Elon Musk and a handful of AI leaders ask for 'pause' on the tech

Experts have fretted about the risks of building supersmart AIs for years, but the conversation has become louder over the last six months as new image generators and chatbots that can have eerily humanlike conversations have been released to the public. Interacting with the newly-released chatbots like OpenAI's GPT4 has prompted many to declare that a human-level AI is just around the corner, but other experts point out that the way the chatbots work is by simply guessing the right words to say next based on their training, which included reading trillions of words online. The bots often devolve into bizarre conversational loops if prompted for long enough, and pass off made-up information as factual.