Please congress, stop all those open source innovators that use things like LoRA to cheaply create LLMs that match AIs in our multi billion $ business model!
Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
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#32Although I think that AI could be quite dangerous, I'm skeptical that "licensing" will do anything more than guarantee the existing big players (OpenAI) an entrenchment.
The baddies have never let licenses ("Badges? We doan' need no steenkin' badges!") stop them.
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#34Finally we'll regulate linear algebra. Joking aside, AIs that on the one hand can cure cancer but can do nothing against misinformation, let alone genocidal AIs, are perhaps mythical creatures, not real ones.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where is the regulatory capture? You might just need to apply for a license. Why is that so horrible? Most travel agents need a license, taxi drivers etc. Not sure why the same shouldn't apply for "AI"?
Oi mate you got a loicense for that matrix multiplication?
Can't wait for our future where GPUs are treated like controlled substances. Sure we'll grab one for you from behind the counter... as long as your license checks out.
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#36Imagine 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…
I'm squarely in the "stochastic parrot" camp (I know it's not a simple markov model, but still, ChatGPT doesn't think), and it's clearly possible to interpret this as a grifting, but your argumentation is too simple.
You're leaving out the essentials. These models do more than fitting the data given. They can output it in a variety of ways, and through their approximation, can synthesize data as well. They can output things that weren't in the original data, tailored to a specific request in the tiniest of fractions of the time it would take a normal person to look up and understand that information.
Your argument is almost like saying "give me your RSA keys, because it's just two prime numbers, and I know how to list them."
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#37Imagine 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…
Why is it so hard to hear this perspective? Like, genuinely curious. This is the first I hear of someone cogently putting this thought out there, but it seems rather painfully obvious -- even if perhaps incorrect, but certainly a perspective that is very easy to comprehend and one that merits a lot of discussion. Why is it almost nonexistent? I remember even in the hay day of crypto fever you'd still have A LOT of folks to provide counterarguments/differing perspectives, but with AI these seem to be rather extremely muted.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#38Imagine 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
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#39Trying to build that moat by the looks of it.
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#40At some point Sam has started give me E. Holmes vibes and I really don't like it. There's a level of odd/ridiculous/hilarious/stupid AI hype that he feels so comfortable leaning into that part of me starts to begin to suspect that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.