Live data from Hacker News

AI Labs Urged to Pump the Brakes in Open Letter

time.com

11–20 of 46 posts

Re: AI Labs Urged to Pump the Brakes in Open Letter

#11
post #6
post #5

So Musk was outed from OpenAI and is now salty? Or are they trying to build a competitor and are falling behind and want OpenAI to get a break so they can catch up? In either way, the ethics talk is total bullshit.

> So Musk was outed from OpenAI and is now salty? Outed? AFAIK he quit.

Back then he said it was because of "conflict of interest" with Tesla. But that wasn't entirely true, he wanted to be the boss and run the company. Altman said no. [citation needed]

Re: AI Labs Urged to Pump the Brakes in Open Letter

#12
People are really freaking out about AI aren’t they?

Why bother? It’s moving super fast, just wait and see what happens.

And even if you could control or regulate it, exactly how would you do that? What would you be regulating/controlling? How would you define it?

And why would you want to anyway? The party has just started, if you think the revolution has arrived, your completely wrong - this is just the beginning - the most amazing stuff is yet to come.

These people begging for the pace to slow, it’s analogous to the newspapers and music companies wanting the internet to slow down as they were being rapidly involuntarily made redundant.

Re: AI Labs Urged to Pump the Brakes in Open Letter

#14

People are really freaking out about AI aren’t they? Why bother? It’s moving super fast, just wait and see what happens. And even if you could control or regulate it, exactly how would you do that? What would you be regulating/controlling? How would you define it? And why would you want to anyway? The party has just started, if you think the revolution has arrived, your completely wrong - this is just the beginning -…

> It’s moving super fast, just wait and see what happens.

This seems like bad advice in almost any context.

Re: AI Labs Urged to Pump the Brakes in Open Letter

#16

Elon already made his money selling a promise of FSD but now wants to pump the brakes on AGI because it is almost here and he doesn't own it? Where did all the hyper-competitive SV libertarians disappear to in the last year?

Elon has been pretty vocal about the potential dangers of AI for a while now. And this open letter isn’t just him, it’s from other folks like Stuart Russel as well.

Re: AI Labs Urged to Pump the Brakes in Open Letter

#17
post #4

> As of Tuesday, no O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com employees had signed the letter, although CEO Sam Altman’s name briefly appeared then disappeared from the list of signatories. You already know the intention(s) of Sam Altman and O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com. It was only to run with VC money and close up all their research up. They are no better than DeepMind.

>You already know the intention(s) of Sam Altman and O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com. It was only to run with VC money and close up all their research up.

Citation needed.

Re: AI Labs Urged to Pump the Brakes in Open Letter

#19

People are really freaking out about AI aren’t they? Why bother? It’s moving super fast, just wait and see what happens. And even if you could control or regulate it, exactly how would you do that? What would you be regulating/controlling? How would you define it? And why would you want to anyway? The party has just started, if you think the revolution has arrived, your completely wrong - this is just the beginning -…

> It’s moving super fast, just wait and see what happens. This seems like bad advice in almost any context.

Why?

We didn’t have to slow down and wait when the web arrived…. and tons of people lost their jobs because of the web.

Re: AI Labs Urged to Pump the Brakes in Open Letter

#20
post #3

If this sort of prevention didn't work for nuclear weapons it'll not work for anything ever.

This basically worked perfectly with nuclear weapons. Everyone took their development extremely seriously, and we’ve managed to avoid a nuclear apocalypse. If anyone could get on their computer and buy a nuke from Amazon, we would all be dead within the week.
Post reply on HN