King of the hill, what a clown
Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
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Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#472I did not expect this. Does Sam have any plans on what this could look like?
An exorbitantly large moat.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#473Feels like a "Just Be Evil" corporate motto to me, but that's counter to my first-hand experiences with Sam & others at OpenAI.
Can someone steelman Sam's stance?
A couple possibilities come to mind: (a) avoiding regulatory capture by genuinely bad actors; (b) prevent overzealous premature regulation by getting in front of things; (c) countering fear-mongering for the AGI apocalypse; or (d) genuine concern. Others?
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#474I used to be very enthusiastic about the tech industry and the Silicon Valley culture before getting into it, but having worked in tech for a while I feel very demoralized and disillusioned with all the blatant lies and hypocrisy that seems central to business.
I wouldn’t mind ruthless anti-competitive approaches to business as much, but the hypocrisy is really demoralizing.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#475Licenses? They'd better be shall-issue, or this is just asking the government to give early movers protection from disruptors -- a very bad look that.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#476I understand the idea behind it: the risks are high and we want to ensure that the AI can not be used for purposes that threatens the survival human civilization. Unfortunately, there is high probability that this agency will be abused from day one: instead of (or in addition to) focusing on the humanity's survival, the agency could be used as a thought police. The AI that allows for the 'wrongthink' will be banned.…
The risks are not high. I see this as simply a power play to convince people that OpenAI is better than they actually are. I am not saying they're stupid but I wouldn't consider Sam Altman to be an AI expert by virtue of being OpenAI's CEO.
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#477Open AI lobbying for regulation on common people being able to use AI, isn't it wonderful.
First mover AI enlightenment for me, regulation for thee, my competitors & unworthy proles.
- Lord Altman
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#478Is this just to put up a barrier to entry to new entrants in the market so they can have a government enforced monopoly?
Why would OpenAI be worried about new entrants that are almost certainly too small to present a business threat? What regulation are they proposing that is actually a serious barrier to making a company around AI? If OpenAI just wants to prevent another OpenAI eating its lunch, the barrier there is raw compute. Companies that can afford that can afford to jump regulatory hurdles.
> If OpenAI just wants to prevent another OpenAI eating its lunch, the barrier there is raw compute.
FB, Amazon, Google (and possibly Apple) can afford both money and compute resource for that. They couldn't do that themselves probably due to corporate politics and bureaucratic but MS and OpenAI showed how to solve that problem. They definitely don't want their competitors to copy the strategy so they're blatantly asking for explicit whitelisting instead of typical safety regulation.
And note that AI compute efficiency is a rapidly developing area and OpenAI definitely knows the formula won't be left the same in the coming years. Expect LLM to be 10x efficient than the SOTA in the foreseeable future, which probably will make it economical even without big tech's backing.
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#479Imagine 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…
The whole story of OpenAI is really slimy too. It was created as a non-profit, then it was handed somehow to Sam who took it closed and for-profit (using AI fear mongering as an excuse) and is now seeking to leverage government to lock it into a position of market dominance. The whole saga makes Altman look really, really terrible. If AI really is this dangerous then we definitely don't need people like this in contr…
> The whole saga makes Altman look really, really terrible.
At this point, with this part about openai and worldcoin… if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck..
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#480Earlier quoted context omitted.
> get more opportunity to weaken regulation by controlling more of the narrative You've got it backwards. I bet OpenAI wants those regulations to be as restrictive as possible. They'll just negotiate an exception for themselves. With increased regulation comes an increased initial cost for competitors to get started in the space. They want to lock down their near monopoly as soon as they can.
I'm sure this is the plan, but I don't see how OpenAI will be able to damage e.g. Anthropic without equally damaging themselves.
It's not just about Anthropic & other 10-figure companies, it's about ensuring an oligopoly instead of a market with cutthroat competition.