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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

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Post by logicallee »

srslack wrote: post #9

Imagine 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…

>Imagine thinking that regression based function approximators are capable of anything other than fitting the data you give it.

Are you aware that you are an 80 billion neuron biological neural network?

Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

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Post by ur-whale »

ChatGTP wrote: post #5
RhodesianHunter wrote: post #2

Regulatory capture and monopolies are now as American as apple pie.

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"?

> Most travel agents need a license, taxi drivers etc.

You say it like it's a good thing.

Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

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Post by orbitalmechanic »

davidguetta wrote: post #49
kypro wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if you're correct about the capabilities of LLMs (I don't think you are), there are still obvious dangers here. I wrote a comment recently trying to explain how even if you believe all LLMs can (and will ever) do is regurgitate their training data that you should still be concerned. For example, imagine in 5 years we have GPT-7, and you ask GPT-7 to solve humanity's great problems. From its training data GPT-7 m…

Sci-fi is a hell of a drug

Shout out to his family.

Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

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Post by touristtam »

kypro wrote: post #42
srslack wrote: post #9

Imagine 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…

Even if you're correct about the capabilities of LLMs (I don't think you are), there are still obvious dangers here. I wrote a comment recently trying to explain how even if you believe all LLMs can (and will ever) do is regurgitate their training data that you should still be concerned. For example, imagine in 5 years we have GPT-7, and you ask GPT-7 to solve humanity's great problems. From its training data GPT-7 m…

You seems to imply sentience from this "ai".

Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

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Post by estebarb »

Let's be honest: obviously the companies that have put a lot of money in it will try to put entry barriers, like licenses to linear algebra or other requirements by law. It is not to benefit humanity, but to monopolize their industry and prevent new participants. We shouldn't allow that kind of restrictions, just because people that doesn't understand how it works are afraid of a killer robot visiting them by night.

Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

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Post by sumtechguy »

bilekas wrote: post #16

This is so stupid its exactly what you would expect in congress. If this was to go through, of course OpenAI and co will be the primary lobbiests to ensure they get to define the filters for such a license. Also how would you even enforce this. It's absolute nonsense and is a clear indicator that these larger companies realize there is no 'gatekeeping' these AI's, that the democratization of models has demonstrated i…

wait they are talking about licenses for giant arrays and for loop interactions? I know I am wildly oversimplifying, but yes that is nonsense.
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