Sam Altman urges congress to build a tax-payer funded moat for his company.
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
#592Open AI lobbying for regulation on common people being able to use AI, isn't it wonderful.
There are all sorts of dangerous things where there are restrictions on what the common people can do. Prescription drugs and fully automatic machine guns are two examples. You can't open your own bank either. For anyone who really believes that AI is dangerous, having some reasonable regulations on it is logical. It's a good start on not being doomed. It goes against everyone's egalitarian/libertarian impulses, thou…
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#593What a goof
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#594Reading this, it basically sounds like "Dear Congress, please grant me the bountiful gift of regulatory capture for my company OpenAI." I just lost a lot of respect for Sam Altman.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#595Open AI lobbying for regulation on common people being able to use AI, isn't it wonderful.
I just cancelled my ChatGPT Plus subscription. I do not want to support monopolization of this technology. Companies apparently learned their lesson with the freedom of the Internet.
OpenAI belongs to Microsoft. Cancel your subscription to GitHub, LinkedIn, O365…
It’s funny how all Microsoft properties are in dominant position on their market.
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#596Obvious power grab, the strong ones try to regulate so it will be harder for smaller to enter the market.
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#597Who watches the watchers? Does anyone truly believe the US and it’s agencies could responsibly “regulate” AI for the greater good? Or would democratizing and going full steam ahead with open source alternatives be better for the greater good. With the corporate influence over our current government regulatory agencies my personal view is open source alternatives are societies best bet!
While I do think we have to be wary of the powerful human manipulation tools that AI will produce, they (govt regulators) would never understand it enough to accomplish anything other than stifle it.
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#598Turns out the ML training moat wasn't nearly as big as they thought it was. Gotta neuter the next "two guys in a garage" before they make OpenAI and Microsoft's investment irrelevant.
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#599We need to MAKE SURE that AI as a technology ISN'T controlled by a small number of powerful corporations with connections to governments. To expound, this just seems like a power grab to me, to "lock in" the lead and keep AI controlled by a small number of corporations that can afford to license and operate the technologies. Obviously, this will create a critical nexus of control for a small number of well connected…
You're not wrong, except in so far as that's parochial.
A government-controlled… never mind artificial god, a government-controlled story teller can be devastating.
I don't buy Musk's claim ChatGPT is "woke" (or even that the term is coherent enough to be tested), but I can say that each government requiring AI to locally adhere to national mythology, will create self-reinforcing cognitive blind spots, because that already happens at the current smaller scale of manual creation and creators being told not to "talk the country down".
But, unless someone has a technique for structuring an AI such that it can't be evil even when you, for example, are literally specifically trying to train it to support the police no matter how authoritarian the laws are, then a fully open source AGI is almost immediately also a perfectly obedient sociopath of $insert_iq_claim_here.
I don't want to wake up to the news that some doomsday cult has used one to design/make a weapon, nor the news a large religious group target personalised propaganda against me and mine.
Fully open does that by default.
But, you're still right, if we don't grok the AI, the governments can each secretly manipulate the AI and bend it to government goals in opposition to the people.
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#600While I remain undecided on the matter, this whole debate is reminiscent of Karel Čapek's War with the Newts [1936]. In particular the public discourse from a time before the newts took over. "It would certainly be an overstatement to say that nobody at that time ever spoke or wrote about anything but the talking newts. People also talked and wrote about other things such as the next war, the economic crisis, football, vitamins and fashion; but there was a lot written about the newts, and much of it was very ill-informed. This is why the outstanding scientist, Professor Vladimir Uher (University of Brno), wrote an article for the newspaper in which he pointed out that the putative ability of Andrias Scheuchzer to speak, which was really no more than the ability to repeat spoken words like a parrot, ..." Note the irony of the professor's attempt to improve an ill-informed debate by contributing his own piece of misinformation, equating newt speech to mere parrot-like mimicry.
Čapek, intriguingly, happens to be the person who first used the word robot, which was coined by his brother.