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Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
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#362If you remember the 90s you remember the panic over encryption. We still have legislation today because of that idiocy.
Except wait, we still have panic over encryption today.
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#363Live now as of 8:49 AM (PDT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ACcQxJIsg
The fact that Altman said many decisions were made based on the understanding that children will use the product was enlightening.
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#364Incumbent love regulations they're very effective in locking out upstarts and saddling them with compliance costs and procedures
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#365Imagine thinking that regression based function approximators are capable of anything other than fitting the data you give it. Then imagine willfully hyping up and scaring people who don't understand, and because it can predict words you take advantage of the human tendency to anthropomorphize, so it follows that it is something capable of generalized and adaptable intelligence. Shame on all of the people involved in…
100% this, I don't get how even on this website people are so clueless. Give them a semi human sounding puppet and they think skynet is coming tomorrow. If we learned anything from the past few months is how gullible people are, wishful thinking is a hell of a drug
It doesn't have to be Skynet. If anything, that scenario seems to a strawman exclusively thrown out by the crowd insisting AI presents no danger to society. I work in ML, and I am not in any way concerned about end-of-world malicious AI dropping bombs on us all or harvesting our life-force. But I do worry about AI giving us the tools to tear ourselves to pieces. Probably one of the single biggest net-negative societal/technological advancements in recent decades has been social media. Whatever good it has enabled, I think its destructive effects on society are undeniable and outstrip the benefits by a comfortable margin. Social media itself is inert and harmless, but the way humans interact with it is not.
I don't think that trying to regulate every detail of every industry is stifling and counter-productive. But the current scenario is closer to the opposite end of the spectrum, with our society acting as a greedy algorithm in pursuit of short-term profits. I'm perfectly in favor of taking a measure-twice-cut-once approach to something that has as much potential for overhauling society as we know it as AI does. And I absolutely do not trust the free market to be capable of moderating itself in regards to these risks.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#366The Turing Registry is coming, one way or another.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
People have been able to commit malicious acts by themselves historically, no AI needed. In other words, LLMs are only as dangerous as the humans operating them, and therefore the solution is to stop crime instead of regulating AI, which only seeks to make OpenAI a monopoly.
Regulation is the only tool for minimizing crime. Other mechanisms, such as police, respond to crime after-the-fact.
Aren't regulations just laws that are enforced after they're broken like other after-the-fact crimes?
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#368Sam Altman is basically saying, "Now that we've already done it, you need to make it so everyone else that tries to compete with us, including hobbyists or Torvalds-types must obtain a license to do it."
That's high-order monopolist BS.
Create safety standards, sure. License LLM training? No.
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#369This 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…
> regulation should focus on ensuring the safety of AIs once they are ready to be put into widespread use
What would you say to a simple registration requirement? You give a point of contact and a description of training data, model, and perhaps intended use (could be binary: civilian or dual use). One page, publicly visible.
This gives groundwork for future rulemaking and oversight if necessary.
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