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

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Post by colpabar »

agnosticmantis wrote: post #474

I 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.

For me it was when I figured out what the “gig economy” was - a way to make money off peoples labor without all the annoyances that come with having employees.

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

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Post by modshatereality »

xiphias2 wrote: post #238
nico wrote: post #143

This is quite incredible Could you imagine if MS had convinced the govt back in the day, to require a special license to build an operating system (this blocking Linux and everything open)? It’s essentially what’s happening now, Except it is OpenAI instead of MS, and it is AI instead of Linux AI is the new Linux, they know it, and are trying desperately to stop it from happening

I bet OpenAI is using MS connections and money for lobbying, so it's basically MS again.

just a billion dollar coincidence

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Post by diputsmonro »

shrimpx wrote: post #493

I keep seeing AI leaders looking outward and asking for 'someone else' to regulate their efforts, while they're accelerating the pace of their efforts. What's the charitable interpretation here? Elon Musk, too, has been warning of AI doom while hurriedly ramping up AI efforts at Tesla. And now he keeps going about AI doom while purchasing thousands of GPUs at Twitter to compete in the LLM space. It's like "I'm buildi…

Yeah, it's an arms race, and OpenAI does stand to lose. But this is a prisoner's dilemma situation. OpenAI can shut themselves down, but that doesn't fix the problem of someone creating a dangerous situation, as everyone else will keep going.

The only way to actually stop it is to get everyone to stop at once, via regulation. Otherwise, stopping by yourself is just a unilaterally bad move.

That's the charitable explanation, at least. These days I don't trust anything Musk says at face value, but I do think that AI is driving society off a cliff and we need to find a way to pump the breaks.

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Post by g42gregory »

diputsmonro wrote: post #505
g42gregory wrote: post #462

I 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.…

I mean, yeah, that sounds good. It wouldn't affect your ability to think for yourself and spread your ideas, it would just put boundaries on AI. I've seen a lot of people completely misunderstand what chat GPT is doing and is capable of. They treat it as an oracle that reveals "hidden truths" or makes infallible decisions based on pure cold logic, both of which are completely wrong. It's just a text jumbler that jumb…

But would you like your kids to learn that there are no fat people, only "differently weight abled"? That being overweight is not bad for you, it just makes you a victim of oppression and deserve, no actually require a sympathy? No smart people, only "mentally privileged" that deserve, no actually require a public condemnation? These are all examples of a 'wrongthink'. It's a long list, but you get the idea.

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Post by sergiotapia »

dubcanada wrote: post #515
sergiotapia wrote: post #448

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds desperate now that open source models are quickly catching up without the woke mind virus.

I am curious, what part of ChatGPT is "woke mind virus" infected? Is there a particular category or something that it is politically biased on?

I will give you two examples of stuff I have experienced:

1. It will tell you jokes about white people, but not jokes about latinos or black people.

2. It will tell you jokes about catholics, but not muslims.

If they were at least honest about their hatred of certain people/religions at least I would respect it. I wouldn't like it but I would respect their honesty. It's the doublespeak and the in-your-face lies that rub me the wrong way. I don't like it.

Why can't these people just be kind humans and follow the letter of the law and leave themselves out of it. They can't help themselves!

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Post by alex_young »

ok_dad wrote: post #484

I just want to also chime in here and say this is what I expected from the folks who currently control this tech: to leverage political connections to legally cement themselves in the market as the leaders and disallow the common plebian from using the world-changing tech. It enrages me SO MUCH that people act like this. We could be colonizing planets, but instead a few people want to keep all the wealth and power fo…

That got a little dark at the end. Surely some other remedies short of cannibalism would suffice.

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Post by tomrod »

dubcanada wrote: post #515
sergiotapia wrote: post #448

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds desperate now that open source models are quickly catching up without the woke mind virus.

I am curious, what part of ChatGPT is "woke mind virus" infected? Is there a particular category or something that it is politically biased on?

I tend to think people referring to a "woke mind virus" are eponymous to their own afflictions. A few decades back, the same sort of attitude was present with calling everyone else "sheeple." These attitudinal cousins are reductive to complex things.

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Post by HideousKojima »

ChrisClark wrote: post #465
sergiotapia wrote: post #448

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds desperate now that open source models are quickly catching up without the woke mind virus.

Imagine calling empathy a virus.

Choosing to let millions die rather than saying a racial slur is not "empathy": https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1622425697812627457...

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Post by throwaway290 »

sumtechguy wrote: post #60
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.

It will probably require restricting GPU sales among other things.
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