> No.
Said everyone else. Such calls are never ever going to work. China will just look at us and laugh using the time to catch up.
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
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#262I've been a staunch supporter of Elon throughout all his scandals, especially the Twitter ones but I'm unable to come up with any justification for this. Everything leads to him (and others) pressuring OpenAI to pause so they could catch up. It doesn't take much smarts to deduce the cats already out of the bag. There is no stopping this, only pressuring/slowing-down/targeting certain players (OpenAI) as a competition…
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#263Elon thought AI would enslave us, but turns out it empowers us. Now he wants to shut it down and have it all to himself. It's getting to be that whatever the opposite of what Musk wants is the correct course of action for the people.
the opposite of what Musk wants is the correct course of action for the people. Ok so you want to move back to gas combustion engines, stop deploying internet to rural and third world countries, clamp down on free speech, and make sure there are no tunnels, just elevated highways dividing cities. Is that about right?
You're thinking of the old Musk. He used to be a force for good before his mental break, which I timed when Grimes left him for Chelsea Manning and his oldest son came out trans. That's why I used the words "it's getting to be". Everyone is entitled to a mid-life crisis and Musk is no different, but supporting Putin seems a little extreme to me.
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#264LMAO. Good luck with that.
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#265If you replace "AI" with "self-driving" throughout the open letter [0] then it still makes a surprising amount of sense (and of course any the incoherent bits can be smoothed out by ChatGPT if you prefer).
However I doubt Musk would have signed that version...
[0] https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...
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#266They are simply paid by the Chinese. Pausing just gives Chinese time to catch up. It's like nuclear weapons or human cloning. You can't stop it because benefit for the winner is too huge.
If the Chinese have all those Western tech execs and AI experts in their pocket, they don't need time to catch up...
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#267Elon thought AI would enslave us, but turns out it empowers us. Now he wants to shut it down and have it all to himself. It's getting to be that whatever the opposite of what Musk wants is the correct course of action for the people.
You’re an absolute fool if you trust anyone at OpenAI either.
“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.” - Sam Altman
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#268For Sake of Argument lets say you pause US from doing anything on AI, how will you control China, Germany or other Countries.. This will only lead to US Lagging behind other countries.
Forget countries? How will you stop me? I have models on my local computer. I can and will use them. They will get better. You don't put tech genie's back in their bottles, that's not how it works.
I mean, in an alternate universe where atomic weapons were a little easier to manufacture at home would it not have made sense for governments to aggressively crack down on anyone doing anything even remotely resembling building them?
I guess the second question is - would they have succeeded or would we all just have died?
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#269Breaking: the runners lagging behind in the AI race demand openAI to stop right on its tracks; this is very unsafe; it will be much safer once we catch up and openAI is on the rear view mirror.
“AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies” - Sam Altman
But sure, let’s just let this guy who sounds like a madman keep going. What could possibly go wrong?
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#270I've been a staunch supporter of Elon throughout all his scandals, especially the Twitter ones but I'm unable to come up with any justification for this. Everything leads to him (and others) pressuring OpenAI to pause so they could catch up. It doesn't take much smarts to deduce the cats already out of the bag. There is no stopping this, only pressuring/slowing-down/targeting certain players (OpenAI) as a competition…
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Don't you think this is needlessly argumentative? It's not relevant to the parent topic.
His only purpose in stating the part you quoted was to say, "so me disagreeing with him now should really say something."