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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 droopyEyelids »

xen2xen1 wrote: post #509
valine wrote: post #491

My gut feeling is that the majority of AI safety discussions are driven by companies that fear losing their competitive edge to small businesses. Until now, it's been challenging to grow a company beyond a certain size without employing an army of lawyers, human resources professionals, IT specialists, etc. What if two lawyers and an LLM could perform the same work as a legal department at a Fortune 500 company? The…

Regulation favors the large, as they can more easily foot the bill.

Also, their lobbyists write the bill for congress.

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Post by Bjorkbat »

Honestly, I’d probably agree if such sentiments were expressed by an independent scientist or group of independent scientists.

But no, instead Congress is listening to a guy who’s likelihood of being the subject of a Hulu documentary is increasing with each passing day.

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Post by tomrod »

In a move surprising to few, an AI innovator is pulling up the ladder after getting into the treehouse.

Open AI has established itself as a market leader in LLM applications, but that dominance is not guaranteed. Especially with the moat being drained by open source, the erstwhile company is leading the charge to establish regulatory barriers.

What Mr. Altman calls for is no less than the death of open-source implementations of AI. We can, do, and should adopt AI governance patterns. Regulatory safeguards are absolutely fine to define and, where necessary, legislate. Better would be a regulatory agency with an analogous knowledgebase of CISA. But what will chill startups and small business innovation completely in using AI to augment people is a licensing agency. This is fundamentally different from the export restrictions on encryption

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Post by Aperocky »

hkt wrote: post #500
Pet_Ant wrote: post #436

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The point of elected representatives is to represent the views of their constituents, not to obtain special advantages for their constituents. That is painfully naive, a history of pork projects speaks otherwise.

To the best of my knowledge this doesn't happen so much in more functional democracies. It seems to be more of an anglophone thing.

This is a product of incentives encouraged by the system (i.e. a federal republic), it has nothing to do with languages.

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Post by hackinthebochs »

gumballindie wrote: post #483
ipaddr wrote: post #454

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Sam is a crook

Essentially. He is marching on these bad scifi scenarios because he knows politicians are old and senile while a good portion of voters is gullible. I find it difficult to believe that grown ups are talking about an ai running amok in the context of a chatbot. Have we really become that dense as a society?

No one thinks a chatbot will run amok. What people are worried about is the pace of progress being so fast that we cannot preempt the creation of dangerous technology without having a sufficient guardrails in place long before the AI becomes potentially dangerous. This is eminently reasonable.

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Post by happytiger »

vippy wrote: post #512
mdp2021 wrote: post #482

Other sources mention more clearly that a proposal is made for an entity that would "provide (and revoke) licences to create AI". Can this be seen as curbing Open Source AI as a consequence?

I think that's the point.

Is this why VCs aren't investing in the area? Investment has been historically quite low for a new technology area, and it's so obviously the next big wave of technology. I've been looking for some explanation or series of explanation to adequately explain it.

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Post by tacticalturtle »

ygjb wrote: post #470
catiopatio wrote: post #404

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Yes, guns don't kill people, people kill people. We know, we have watched this argument unfold in the United States over the last 100 years. It sure does seem like a few people are using guns to kill a lot of people. The point of regulating AI should be to explicitly require every single use of AI and machine learning to be clearly labelled so that when people seek remedy for the injustices that are already being per…

What are some examples of injustices that are already being perpetrated?

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Post by shagie »

slowmovintarget wrote: post #396
antiloper wrote: post #150

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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.

As a point of trivia, at one time "a" Mac was one of the fastest computers in the world.

https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/2004/11/ and https://www.top500.org/system/173736/

And while 1100 Macs wouldn't exactly be affordable, the idea of trying to limit commercial data centers gets amusing.

That system was "only" 12,250.00 GFlop/s - I could do that with a small rack of Mac M1 minis now for less than $10k and fewer computers than are in the local grade school computer room.

(and I'm being a bit facetious here) Local authorities looking at power usage and heat dissipation for marijuana growing places might find underground AI training centers.

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