I'm not in the US and I fully support Sam Altmans attempt to cripple the US's ability to compete with other countries in this field.
Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
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#392This feels like theater. Make society fear AI, requiring regulation, so central power controls access to it. I think Osho put it nicely:
"No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies. If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced in a mechanical life, to live like robots."
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#393"We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI"
Dismiss it as the opinions of "a Googler" but it is entirely true. The seemingly coordinated worldwide[1] push to keep it in the hands of the power class speaks for itself.
Both are seemingly seeking to control not only the commercial use and wide distribution of such systems, but even writing them and personal use. This will keep even the knowledge of such systems and their capabilities in the shadows, ripe for abuse laundered through black box functions.
This is up there with the battle for encryption in ensuring a more human future. Don't lose it.
[1] https://technomancers.ai/eu-ai-act-to-target-us-open-source-...
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#394Is this just to put up a barrier to entry to new entrants in the market so they can have a government enforced monopoly?
It could be, but it could also be because he is genuinely worried about the future impact of runaway capitalism without guardrails + AI.
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#395Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
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.
> Kind; class; sort; type; ; -- sometimes used to indicate disapproval when applied to people.
> The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
Yes, only sometimes used to indicate disapproval, but such ambiguity does not work to your favor here. It is better to remove that ambiguity.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#396This is going to be RSA export restrictions all over again. I wish the regulators the best of luck in actually enforcing this. I'm tempted to think that whatever regulations they put in place won't really matter that much, and progress will march on regardless. Give it a year and a 10x more efficient algorithm, and we'll have GPT4 on our personal devices and there's nothing that any government regulator will be able…
Enforcing this is easy. The top high performance GPU manufacturers (Nvidia, AMD, Intel) are all incorporated in the U.S.
Meaning we won't be able to buy an a100 without a license... Wait, I can't afford an a100 anyway.
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#397Reminds me of SBF calling for crypto regulations while running FTX. Being seen as friendly to regulations is great for optics compared to being belligerently anti-regulation. You can appear responsible and benevolent, and get more opportunity to weaken regulation by controlling more of the narrative. And hey, if you get end up getting some regulatory capture making competition harder, that's a great benefit too. Open…
FWIW, OpenAI and FTX leadership share the same ideology
Make money and try to acquire a monopoly?
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#398The problem isn't safety.
The problem is that we need to adopt a proper copyright framework that recognizes that companies building AI are doing an end-run around it.
Since only a human can produce a copyrighted work, it follows that anything produced by an AI should not be copyrightable.
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#399I believe this is called "pulling the ladder up behind you".
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#400Is this just to put up a barrier to entry to new entrants in the market so they can have a government enforced monopoly?
My main concern is what new regulations would do to the open source and hobbiest endeavors? They will be least able to adapt to regulations.