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Who is to say that brains aren't just regression based function approximators?
A Boltzmann brain just materialized over my house.
An entire generation of minds, here and gone in an instant.
Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
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Hacker News was created by Paul Graham. Sam Altman didn't co-found it and neither did he co-found YC. He became a partner of YC in 2011 though (6 years after founding) and was President from 2014 – 2019.
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#203Less competition is the draw back of requiring all the red tape
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#204Any firm large enough to build AI projects on the scale of ChatGPT will be large enough to bid on Government AI contracts. In which case, there will be zero regulations on what you can and cannot do in terms of "national security" in relation to AI. Which is fair, considering our adversaries won't be limiting themselves either.
The only regulations that matter will be applied to the end user and the hobbyists. You won't be able to just spin up an AI startup in your garage. So in that sense, the regulations are pretty transparently an attempt to stifle competition and funnel the real progress through the existing players.
It also forces the end users down the path of using only a few select AI service providers as opposed to the technology just being readily available.
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#205This is the message I shared with my senator (edited to remove information which could identify me). I hope others will send similar messages. Dear Senator [X], I am an engineer working for [major employer in the state]. I am extremely concerned about the message that Sam Altman is sharing with the Judiciary committee today. Altman wants to create regulatory roadblocks to developing AI. My company produces AI-enabled…
You lost me at "While AI regulation is important" - nope, congress does not need to regulate AI.
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#206I had ChatGPT write a letter to your senator:
Subject: Urgent: Concerns Regarding Sam Altman's Proposed AI Regulation
Dear Senator [Senator's Last Name],
I hope this letter finds you in good health and high spirits. My name is [Your Name] and I am a resident of [Your City, Your State]. I am writing to express my deep concerns regarding the Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation proposal put forth by Sam Altman. While I appreciate the necessity for regulations to ensure ethical and safe use of AI, I believe the current proposal has significant shortcomings that could hamper innovation and growth in our state and the country at large.
Firstly, the proposal appears to be overly restrictive, potentially stifering innovation and the development of new technology. AI, as you are aware, holds immense potential to drive economic growth, increase productivity, and address complex societal challenges. However, an excessively stringent regulatory framework could discourage small businesses and startups, the lifeblood of our economy, from innovating in this promising field.
Secondly, the proposal does not seem to take into account the rapid evolution of AI technologies. The field of AI is highly dynamic, with new advancements and capabilities emerging at a breathtaking pace. Therefore, a one-size-fits-all approach to AI regulation may quickly become outdated and counterproductive, inhibiting the adoption of beneficial AI applications.
Lastly, the proposed legislation seems to focus excessively on potential risks without adequately considering the immense benefits that AI can bring to society. While it is prudent to anticipate and mitigate potential risks, it is also important to strike a balanced view that appreciates the transformative potential of AI in areas such as healthcare, education, and climate change, among others.
I strongly urge you to consider these concerns and advocate for a balanced, flexible, and innovation-friendly approach to AI regulation. We need policies that not only mitigate the risks associated with AI but also foster an environment conducive to AI-driven innovation and growth.
I have faith in your leadership and your understanding of the pivotal role that technology, and specifically AI, plays in our society. I am confident that you will champion the right course of action to ensure a prosperous and technologically advanced future for our state and our country.
Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to your advocacy in this matter and will follow future developments closely.
Yours sincerely,
[Your Name] [Your Contact Information]
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#207I wish he would just stop sharing his unsubstantiated opinions, tweets included, he got worse very fast when he entered his AI arc.
Is it worse than the crypto arc?
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I’m open minded about this, I see people more knowledgeable than me on both sides of the argument. Can someone explain how Geoffrey Hinton can be considered to be clueless?
He doesn't talk about skynet afaik > Some of the dangers of AI chatbots were “quite scary”, he told the BBC, warning they could become more intelligent than humans and could be exploited by “bad actors”. “It’s able to produce lots of text automatically so you can get lots of very effective spambots. It will allow authoritarian leaders to manipulate their electorates, things like that.” You can do bad things with it b…
He absolutely does. The interview I saw with him on the PBS Newshour was 80% him talking about the singularity and extinction risk. The interviewer asked him about more near term risk and he basically said he wasn't as worried as he was about a skynet type situation.
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What do you think about the papers showing mathematical proofs that GNNs (i.e. GATs/transformers) are dynamic programmers and therefore perform algorithmic reasoning? The fact that these systems can extrapolate well beyond their training data by learning algorithms is quite different than what has come before, and anyone stating that they "simply" predict next token is severely shortsighted. Things don't have to be '…
I just don't get how the average HN commenter thinks (and gets upvoted) that they know better than e.g. Ilya Sutskever who actually, you know, built the system. I keep reading this "it just predicts words, duh" rhetoric on HN which is not at all believed by people like Ilya or Hinton. Could it be that HN commenters know better than these people?
That is the wrong discussion. What are their regulatory, social, or economic policy credentials?
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I mean, it will? Not universally, but for the specific products I work on we use additional labor when we include AI-enabled features (due to installing and wiring processors and sensors). I think that that the sorts of AI that smaller companies make will be more likely to create jobs as opposed to getting rid of them since they are more likely to be integrated with physical products.
>I mean, it will?
It's complicated obviously, but I think "will create jobs" just leaves a lot of subtlety out of it, so I've never believed it when representatives say it and I wouldn't say it myself writing to them, but a small letter to a representative always will lack that fidelity.
I don't think anyone can guarantee that there won't be job loss with AI, so it's possible we could have a net negative (in total jobs, quality of jobs, or any dimension).
What we do see is companies shedding jobs on a (what seems like perpetual) edge of a recession/depression, so it might be worth regulating in the short term.