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Jfc. People, a molitov cocktail was thrown as his home. The rest of what is written doesn't matter. This isn't the moment for that conversation. That's his family. He has a fucking child. Holy shit.
In all seriousness, what is the game plan for society moving forward as AI takes more jobs? The government doesn't seem to care. The AI labs don't seem to care. What happens when more and more people can't afford housing, kids, food, health insurance, etc.? Nothing more dangerous than a man who has no reason to live... I don't advocate for violence, but I do foresee more headlines like this as things get worse.
Nobody has one. If labor stops having value the economy will stop working and society will break down far in advance of building the infrastructure necessary for the promised AI abundance. I like the idea of being ”post-scarcity” as much as the next guy, but I don’t understand how we get there. It’s a project in itself, it doesn’t just happen by magic, and nobody is actively trying to make it happen or has any logist…
PS: I include AI as an important one in the future because it will be a direct way to get educated and replace college for example without having to pay (or very cheap).
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You're allowed to authorize your technology to be used to kill people, but if you do so, you shouldn't be surprised when those people also try to kill you. America and Americans somehow keep forgetting that actions have consequences and the government can't always override the consequences.
"Authorize" technology to kill you? Are cars authorized to run people over? Are painkillers "authorized" to get people to overdose? Are computer chips "authorized" to be put into bombers? What are you even talking about?
Didn’t we just go through several weeks of hearing about OpenAI allowing its tech to be used for conducting warfare? Not saying that justifies harming Altman but I am confused that he seems surprised he is now in physical danger? [Or chalks it up to just some single specific incendiary article rather than the companies actual actions?] If you involve yourself in the act of killing people then, yeah, you’re going to g…
When was the last time a molotov cocktail was thrown at the house of an arms manufacturer? Trump and other presidents literally started wars and ordered people to be killed. When was the last time they were physically attacked?
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Why did I need to scroll halfway down the page before finding a comment that says it was wrong to firebomb his house and nothing else?
Because mob behavior overwhelms everything else.
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GPT is the product-ified version of text transformers, which OpenAI didn't invent or really even contribute to the discovery of. The world changed with Attention is All You Need , and OpenAI was just an early adopter. The biggest thing OpenAI contributed to the broader industry was their API schema.
This sounds like the "acchhshually the iphone wasn't the first touchscreen phone, we had the motorola x34 vr34 t435 that did that one year before". Sure. Does anyone remember that phone? No? Well, the iphone changed the world.
"the iPhone changed the world" and "ChatGPT changed the world" are indeed both midwit takes that will get you mocked in technical circles. Both products have a net negative impact on technological progress and directly contribute to the enshittification of their respective market segments.
It is fair to be critical of Sam and other tech leaders regarding AI, but he has done nothing to begin to justify violence or even the threat of violence against him or his family.
This is both horrible and not at all surprising. Every quarter there are more layoffs and we're told how AI will replace us and that we can do nothing to stop it. We cannot afford the simple things our parents were able to and are supposed to be grateful that we are living in a time with such "amazing" technological progress. Sam is one of the most media-visible people that represents AI replacement of average people…
Sam and related spend half their lives on TV poking the bear laughing about how he is going to use his tech to ruin peoples lives and there is nothing they can do about it. Some of those people have nothing to lose.
This is the exact kind of poisonous, plausible-sounding but false and inflammatory rhetoric that is escalating things.