Well they needed a moat lol.
Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
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#252This is quite incredible Could you imagine if MS had convinced the govt back in the day, to require a special license to build an operating system (this blocking Linux and everything open)? It’s essentially what’s happening now, Except it is OpenAI instead of MS, and it is AI instead of Linux AI is the new Linux, they know it, and are trying desperately to stop it from happening
I guess @sama took that leaked Google memo to heart ("We have no moat... and neither does OpenAI"). Requiring a license would take out the biggest competitive threats identified in the same memo (Open Source projects) which can result in self-hosted models, which I suppose Altman sees as an existential threat to OpenAI
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#253Imagine 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…
Generating new data similar to what’s in a training set set isn’t the only type of AI that exists, you can also optimise a different goal, like board game playing AIs that are vastly better than humans because they aren’t trained on human moves. This is also how ChatGPT is more polite than the data it’s trained on, and there’s no reason to think that given sufficient compute power it couldn’t be more intelligent too, like board game AIs are at the specific task of playing board games.
And just because a topic has been covered by science fiction doesn’t mean it can’t happen, the sci-fi depictions will be unrealistic though because they’re meant to be dramatic rather than realistic
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#254Reuters chose an excellent picture to accompany the story -- it plainly speaks that Mr. Altman is not buying his own bullshit.
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#255Live now as of 8:49 AM (PDT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ACcQxJIsg
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
No one is claiming to know better than Ilya. Just recognition of the fact that such a license would benefit these same individuals (or their employers) the most. I don't understand how HN can be so angry about a company that benefits from tax law (Intuit) advocating for regulation while also supporting a company that would benefit from an AI license (OpenAI) advocating for such regulation. The conflict of interest is…
2 reasons:
1. He's too busy building the next generation of tech that HN commenters will be arguing about in a couple months' time.
2. I think Sam Altman (who is addressing the committee) and Ilya are pretty much on the same page on what LLMs do.
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#257This 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…
> Altman and his ilk IANA senator, but if I were you lost me there. The personal insults make it seem petty and completely overshadow the otherwise professional-sounding message.
Ilk is shorthand for similarity, nothing more. The 'personal insult' is a misunderstanding on your part.
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#258Excellent plan for driving AI research and ecosystem to every other country except the United States.
Why would you even attempt to found a company here if this comes to pass?
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#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't mean it as a personal insult at all! The word ilk actually means "a type of people or things similar to those already referred to," it is not an insult or rude word.
It’s always used derogatorily. I agree that you should change it if you don’t mean for it to come across that way.
Not true.
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