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Re: Abundant Intelligence

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Post by davidw »

mcpar-land wrote: post #28

> As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and maybe eventually something we consider a fundamental human right. My product is going to be the fundamental driver of the economy. Even a human right! > Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer. How? > We are particularly excited to build a lot of this in the US; right now, other countries are building…

Maybe the other countries aren't rounding up engineers working on opening factories and detaining them in inhumane conditions.

Re: Abundant Intelligence

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Post by [deleted] »

mcpar-land wrote: post #28

> As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and maybe eventually something we consider a fundamental human right. My product is going to be the fundamental driver of the economy. Even a human right! > Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer. How? > We are particularly excited to build a lot of this in the US; right now, other countries are building…

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Re: Abundant Intelligence

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Post by MattDamonSpace »

thrance wrote: post #37
mcpar-land wrote: post #28

> As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and maybe eventually something we consider a fundamental human right. My product is going to be the fundamental driver of the economy. Even a human right! > Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer. How? > We are particularly excited to build a lot of this in the US; right now, other countries are building…

Stop thinking and give them money. But for real, the leap from GPT4 to GPT5 was nowhere near as impressive as from GTP3 to GPT4. They'll have to do a lot more to give any weight to their usual marketing ultra-hype.

The jump from GPT4 through o3 to GPT5 was very impressive

Re: Abundant Intelligence

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Post by keiferski »

What's the serious counter-argument to the idea that a) AI will become more ubiquitous and inexpensive and b) economic/geopolitical success will be tied in some way to AI ability?

Because I do agree with him on that front. The question is whether the AI industry will end up like airplanes: massively useful technology that somehow isn't a great business to be in. If indeed that is the case, framing OpenAI as a nation-bound "human right" is certainly one way to ensure its organizational existence if the market becomes too competitive.

Re: Abundant Intelligence

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Post by drooby »

mcpar-land wrote: post #28

> As AI gets smarter, access to AI will be a fundamental driver of the economy, and maybe eventually something we consider a fundamental human right. My product is going to be the fundamental driver of the economy. Even a human right! > Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer. How? > We are particularly excited to build a lot of this in the US; right now, other countries are building…

No offense but your comment is basically HN parody. OpenAI created AI tech decades ahead of estimates. And they just signed a 100B deal with Nvidea. They are actually doing the things that are astonishing.

Every engineer I see in coffee shops uses AI. All my coworkers use AI. I use AI. AI nearly solved protein folding. It is beginning to unlock personalized medicine. AI absolutely will be a fundamental driver of the economy in the future.

Being skeptical is still reasonable.. but flippant dismissal of legitimately amazing accomplishments is peak HN top comment.

Re: Abundant Intelligence

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Post by tlb »

Avshalom wrote: post #27
bl0rg wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you feel that way?

The fundamental driver of the economy is people eating and clothing themselves, not writing memos that are never read.

Food is 13% of US consumer spending, and clothing is 2.7%. Both have declined steadily since the industrial revolution.

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Post by beeflet »

keiferski wrote: post #44

What's the serious counter-argument to the idea that a) AI will become more ubiquitous and inexpensive and b) economic/geopolitical success will be tied in some way to AI ability? Because I do agree with him on that front. The question is whether the AI industry will end up like airplanes: massively useful technology that somehow isn't a great business to be in. If indeed that is the case, framing OpenAI as a nation-…

Maybe AI will become more ubiquitous. But I predict LLMs will be capped by the amount of training data present in the wild.

Re: Abundant Intelligence

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Post by ksec »

Google: Do no Evil.

Apple: Privacy is a fundamental Human right. That is why we must control everything. And stop our user from sharing any form of data other than to Apple.

OpenAI: AI is a fundamental Human right.....

There is something about Silicon Valley that is philosophically very odd for the past 15 to 20 years.

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