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Sam Altman isn’t the answer to regulating artificial intelligence

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Re: Sam Altman isn’t the answer to regulating artificial intelligence

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Post by spamizbad »

justrealist wrote: post #6
stephc_int13 wrote: post #3

Sam Altman is as much the answer to regulating AI as SBF was the answer to regulating crypto.

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SBF's biggest problem was that he got caught (and became famous) before he could do the work necessary to clean things up. There's tons of grey/hinky stuff that goes on inside companies starting up. These companies either die, get acquired, or professionals are brought in to clean it up before it goes public.

FWIW I think Sam is an honest actor here though. No real funny business with OpenAI.

Re: Sam Altman isn’t the answer to regulating artificial intelligence

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Post by wcrossbow »

justrealist wrote: post #6
stephc_int13 wrote: post #3

Sam Altman is as much the answer to regulating AI as SBF was the answer to regulating crypto.

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When 10s of millions of your own money are at stake and depend upon how an industry is regulated you are most definitely not the right person to call the shots on how said regulation should be implemented.

Re: Sam Altman isn’t the answer to regulating artificial intelligence

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Post by chongli »

stephc_int13 wrote: post #3

Sam Altman is as much the answer to regulating AI as SBF was the answer to regulating crypto.

Yeah. Walking into Congress and agreeing with every barb thrown his way is a red flag to me. OpenAI has made AI fear mongering a central plank in their marketing platform. I think their goal is to convince the government to build a regulatory moat around their business.

Why? Because they see the writing on the wall. There’s no network effect here. Anyone can build AI. There are thousands of students going into grad school to study this stuff. The market is going to be flooded.

All of their head start will evaporate unless they can build a moat around it to keep new entrants out. What better way to do that than to have your rockstar pitch man walk into Congress and have them eating out of his hand? They practically begged him to head up a new regulatory agency!

Re: Sam Altman isn’t the answer to regulating artificial intelligence

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Post by airgapstopgap »

justrealist wrote: post #6
stephc_int13 wrote: post #3

Sam Altman is as much the answer to regulating AI as SBF was the answer to regulating crypto.

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The argument this quip points to is very clear, though. SBF tried to sell the regulatory entrenchment of his monopoly as a solution to the respective market's deep problems, which he purportedly was in a position to address. He was revealed as the epitome of crypto problems: deception of users and partners, manual controls in place of algorithms, total abandonment of the premise that made the whole thing attractive. And messianic delusions, too.

Re: Sam Altman isn’t the answer to regulating artificial intelligence

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Post by jjoonathan »

wcrossbow wrote: post #15
justrealist wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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When 10s of millions of your own money are at stake and depend upon how an industry is regulated you are most definitely not the right person to call the shots on how said regulation should be implemented.

No, but you are the exactly the right person to hit up for campaign donations in exchange for regulating it a certain way.

Re: Sam Altman isn’t the answer to regulating artificial intelligence

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Post by bostonsre »

chongli wrote: post #16
stephc_int13 wrote: post #3

Sam Altman is as much the answer to regulating AI as SBF was the answer to regulating crypto.

Yeah. Walking into Congress and agreeing with every barb thrown his way is a red flag to me. OpenAI has made AI fear mongering a central plank in their marketing platform. I think their goal is to convince the government to build a regulatory moat around their business. Why? Because they see the writing on the wall. There’s no network effect here. Anyone can build AI. There are thousands of students going into grad s…

Isn't it also possible that Sam is being genuine about his concerns and his statements because he wants what is best for humanity?
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