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Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by imgabe »

angusturner wrote: post #520

Credit to the engineers that built this, but it fills me with rage that Elon has this sort of unchecked power. How long before this starts getting deployed in safety critical applications or government decision making processes? With no oversight because Elon seems to have the power to dismiss the people responsible for investigating him. Anyone not scared by this concentration of power needs to pick up a book.

There is precisely zero mention of any plan to put xAI or any other LLM in any safety critical or decision making process. How long? Nobody knows because nobody is even considering it. Take your pointless fear mongering elsewhere.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by cpursley »

imgabe wrote: post #561
angusturner wrote: post #520

Credit to the engineers that built this, but it fills me with rage that Elon has this sort of unchecked power. How long before this starts getting deployed in safety critical applications or government decision making processes? With no oversight because Elon seems to have the power to dismiss the people responsible for investigating him. Anyone not scared by this concentration of power needs to pick up a book.

There is precisely zero mention of any plan to put xAI or any other LLM in any safety critical or decision making process. How long? Nobody knows because nobody is even considering it. Take your pointless fear mongering elsewhere.

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Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by moolcool »

imgabe wrote: post #561
angusturner wrote: post #520

Credit to the engineers that built this, but it fills me with rage that Elon has this sort of unchecked power. How long before this starts getting deployed in safety critical applications or government decision making processes? With no oversight because Elon seems to have the power to dismiss the people responsible for investigating him. Anyone not scared by this concentration of power needs to pick up a book.

There is precisely zero mention of any plan to put xAI or any other LLM in any safety critical or decision making process. How long? Nobody knows because nobody is even considering it. Take your pointless fear mongering elsewhere.

It's well documented that DOGE uses AI, and Musk has tweeted that SpaceX will be overhauling the FAA as well. It's pretty realistic to think they will (or already do) use xAI for critical processes.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by nozzlegear »

cm2187 wrote: post #140
albertzeyer wrote: post #130

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/elon-musks-terrifying-visi... I'm not sure if this was a very bad joke by Elon, or if Grok 3 is really biased like that.

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Journalists are allowed to be biased. It only becomes a hit piece if they report something false or make up accusations out of whole cloth.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by aaron695 »

angusturner wrote: post #520

Credit to the engineers that built this, but it fills me with rage that Elon has this sort of unchecked power. How long before this starts getting deployed in safety critical applications or government decision making processes? With no oversight because Elon seems to have the power to dismiss the people responsible for investigating him. Anyone not scared by this concentration of power needs to pick up a book.

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Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by nkozyra »

bobxmax wrote: post #483
aprilthird2021 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's already clear that these are going to be commoditized and the free / open source versions will be good enough to capture enough of the value that the remaining players will not be Facebook-level monopolies on the space

The vast majority of people couldn't care less about open source

That's true, but if someone sells you a one-time-purchase box/gadget/phone that will do a snapshot SOTA work and not cost you $20-$200/mo in subscriptions, a lot of people would be in.

Right now the average person has to go through a vendor with a web app, there's not a lot of room for the public to explore.

Things could change in a hurry.

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by xenodium »

tartoran wrote: post #547
_heimdall wrote: post #530

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure how LLMs/AI couldn't consolidate power. By design, it will move power from the individual to those running the AI systems.

I'm not sure people will just take it though. In the short term it looks like the situation is on a horrible course but eventually people will have had enough. I'm hoping it would take less time for that to happen and the damage will not be too great. Let's remember that we could use the same technology if not a better one to fight against all this.

> but eventually people will have had enough

As a Venezuelan, I thought so too. 25 years on...

Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by spiderfarmer »

cpursley wrote: post #560
angusturner wrote: post #520

Credit to the engineers that built this, but it fills me with rage that Elon has this sort of unchecked power. How long before this starts getting deployed in safety critical applications or government decision making processes? With no oversight because Elon seems to have the power to dismiss the people responsible for investigating him. Anyone not scared by this concentration of power needs to pick up a book.

> How long before this starts getting deployed in safety critical applications or government decision making processes Hopefully sooner than later. I trust this more than the literal scammers and thieves who were previously running things.

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Re: Grok3 Launch [video]

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Post by digdugdirk »

srid wrote: post #541
angusturner wrote: post #520

Credit to the engineers that built this, but it fills me with rage that Elon has this sort of unchecked power. How long before this starts getting deployed in safety critical applications or government decision making processes? With no oversight because Elon seems to have the power to dismiss the people responsible for investigating him. Anyone not scared by this concentration of power needs to pick up a book.

I do not share your fear & anxiety. What concrete danger do you imagine will happen as a result of xAI? Try to be as concrete as possible. Also, dang, is there anything we can do to keep the comments on this submission tech-focused? Perhaps the Elon-bashing political digression can be split into its own thread?

The concrete danger isn't necessarily with xAI (the product) but with Elon being the one who is in control of it. LLMs are an interesting technology, and we should absolutely be investing in pushing our understanding of the technology forward. We should absolutely not be relying on them for the ongoing functioning of our government: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/05/musk-doge-ai-government-eff...

Unfortunately, Elon has made himself a spectacle. To separate him and his intentions out from the technology itself would be a disservice to the discourse as a whole.

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