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Then the government should takeover OpenAI
Or.. the government could try to apply sensible regulations so that OpenAI and other corporations are less likely to harm society.
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>If OpenAI just wants to prevent another OpenAI eating its lunch, the barrier there is raw compute. Stable Diffusion pretty much killed DALL-E, cost only $600k to train, and can be run on iPhones.
This. DALL-E (at least the currently available version) is way too focused on "safety" to be interesting. The creativity unleashed by the SD community has been mind-blowing.
I hate I hate I HATE regulatory capture. This is a transparent attempt at cornering the market and it disgusts me. I am EXTREMELY disappointed in Sam Altman.
Pretty repulsive altogether
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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…
This is the message I shared with my senator (edited to remove information which could identify me). I hope others will send similar messages. Dear Senator [X], I am an engineer working for [major employer in the state]. I am extremely concerned about the message that Sam Altman is sharing with the Judiciary committee today. Altman wants to create regulatory roadblocks to developing AI. My company produces AI-enabled…
> Altman and his ilk IANA senator, but if I were you lost me there. The personal insults make it seem petty and completely overshadow the otherwise professional-sounding message.
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 expla…
How will that work across national boundaries? If AI is as dangerous as some claim, the cat is already out of the bag. Regardless of any licensing stateside, there are plenty of countries who are going to want to have AI capability available to them - some very well-resourced for the task, like China.
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.
At 25 you stop believing in love,
At 40 you stop believing in corporations’ sincerity?