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I agree but I don't think our adversaries should get a freebie that's trained on our scientific data at a national laboratory. Which makes me wonder. I'm not sure this applies here but say you train a model on classified information, is the model/weights then classified?
That’s like saying we should stop all education in America so that Chinese people don’t come in and steal our knowledge.
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Then the first thing the AGI will do is figure out ultra-high throughput analog computing for LLMs
An AGI will likely be scared of even more powerful AGI's that it itself cannot control. It might take steps to try to prevent anyone building such a thing.
We simply don't know, just like we don't know what other species experience and can only guess at by observing their behavior and trying to map it back to what we know.
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Yes, Governments have a monopoly on violence.
It’s not inconceivable that violence will be necessary to control AGI at some point.
Once a digital intelligence is discovered, does it have rights? Can it be enslaved, controlled, or destroyed? If an AGI can't be granted similar rights as a human, why are corporations legally treated similarly to humans?
I'm sure the government's mission is also to develop an AGI that benefits us all.
Some forget that the primary mission of systems such as the government is to continue existing. Auxiliary functions come afterwards. I think AI could be turned into a very effective persuasion weapon. I think the government that does it first will gain more power as a result.
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Facebook alone has reeked havoc on at least a few societies. Corporations also enable government actions by developing the tech and tools/weapons needed.
Facebook wreaked havoc, and they reek (stink).
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> [The Queen] granted her charter to their corporation named Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies.[15] For a period of fifteen years, the charter awarded the company a monopoly[26] on English trade with all countries east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of the Straits of Magellan.[27] Any traders there without a licence from the company were liable to forfeiture of their ships an…
Monopoly is the natural state. Government is the only reason we have any alternatives.
It's not clear from the article whether it's a dense model or MoE. This matters when it comes to comparing with GPT-4 - in terms of # params - which is reported to be MoE
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This is kind-of making the parent’s point. There are lots of private companies that have done very bad things, too many to even count, as bad as your examples and worse. And there are thousands upon thousands of sub-organizations of the US government, some of which do very good things and are definitely benevolent, because there is no built-in profit motive. Private companies almost cannot be benevolent and survive,…
>There are lots of private companies that have done very bad things, too many to even count, as bad as your examples and worse Absolutely not; there's no private company that's shot and bombed the life out of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in cold blood.
In my comment above, I also had in mind industrial and environmental damage, unintentional death by private interests, environmental accidents and disasters, and coverups, which we can’t even count but the WHO estimates is in the tens of millions per year globally, today.
Could the weights be FOIA'd?