We really ought to boycott openai, and prevent our organisations using their tech.
If profits matter so much, then that’s where it hurts.
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
#982This 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…
> regulation should focus on ensuring the safety of AIs once they are ready to be put into widespread use - this would allow companies and individuals to research new AIs freely while still ensuring that AI products are properly reviewed. While in general I share the view that _research_ should be unencumbered, but deployment should be regulated, I do take issue with your view that safety only matters once they are r…
> For example, if next month you developed a model that could produce extremely high quality video clips from text and reference images, you did a small, gated beta release with no PR, and one of your beta testers immediately uses it to make e.g. highly realistic revenge porn.
As I understand it, revenge porn is seen as being problematic because it can lead to ostracization in certain social groups. Would it not be better to regulate such discrimination? The concept of discrimination is already recognized in law. This would equally solve for revenge porn created with a camera. The use of AI is ultimately immaterial here. It is the human behaviour as a product of witnessing material that is the concern.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#983Earlier quoted context omitted.
wait they are talking about licenses for giant arrays and for loop interactions? I know I am wildly oversimplifying, but yes that is nonsense.
just rename everything to ML, in fact you could start a company and call it OpenML
hehe, I was thinking "Loops With Rules".
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#984This 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…
> ..is necessary because an AI could hack it's way out of a laboratory. Yet, they cannot explain how an AI would accomplish this in practice. I’m sympathetic to your position in general, but I can’t believe you wrote that with a straight face. “I don’t know how it would do it, therefore we should completely ignore the risk that it could be done.” I’m no security expert, but I’ve been following the field incidentally…
It’s less about how it could be hacked and more about why an AI would do that or have the capability to do it without any warning.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#985Earlier quoted context omitted.
His last thing is "WorldCoin" which, before pretty much completely failing did manage to scan the irises of 20% of the world's low income people which they definitely were all properly informed about. He's a charlatan, which makes sense he gets most of his money from Thiel and Musk. Why do so many supposedly smart people worship psychotic idiots?
I think it is the same instinct in humans which made Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fall for seances and mediums and all those hoaxes. The need to believe something is there which is hidden and unknown. It is the drive to curiosity. The way Peter, Musk, Sam and these guys talk, it has this aura of "hidden secrets". Things hidden since the foundation of the world. Of course the reality is they make their money the old fashion…
That's a great metaphor, and an excellent way of looking at it.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#986What an excellent way to protect your business from other non-corporate entrants. Regulation hurdles to keep emerging businesses from coming in.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#987It seems pretty clear at this point, that OpenAI etc will lobby towards making it more difficult for new companies/entities to join the AI space, all in the name of 'safety'. They're trying to make the case that everyone should use AI through their APIs so that they can keep things in check. Conveniently this also helps them build a monopoly. It is pretty aggravating that they're bastardizing and abusing terms like '…
My biggest concern with AI is that it could be controlled by a group of oligarchs who care about nothing more than enriching themselves. A "Linux" version of AI that anyone can use, experiment with, and build off of freely would be incredible. A heavily restricted, policed and surveilled system controlled by ruthlessly greedy companies like OpenAI and Microsoft sounds dystopian.
>A "Linux" version of AI
the issue here is that a 'Linux' of AI would be happy to use the N-word and stuff like that. It's politically untenable.
Re: Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
#988regulation should go beyond commercial APIs. AI will be replacing government functions and politicians. Lawmakers should create a framework for that.
Can see the first government declaring into law that politician positions can't be AI within the next 3 months
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#989Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not following this "good ideas must come from an ideologically pure source" thing. Shouldn't we be evaluating ideas on the merits and not categorically rejecting (or endorsing) them based on who said them?
The recent history of tech CEOs advocating for regulations only they can obey has become so blatant that any tech CEO who advocates for regulation should be presumed guilty until proven innocent.
Sure, go execute him for all I care.
My point was that an idea shold not need attribution for you to know whether it's good or bad, for your own purposes. I can't imagine looking at a proposal and deciding whether to support or oppose based on the author rather than content.
If Altman is that smart and manipulative, all he has to do is advocate the opposite of what he wants and you'll be insisting that we must give him exactly what he wants, on principle. That's funny with kids but no way to run public policy.
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#990Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please explain how Stochastic Parrots can perform chain of reasoning and answer out of distribution questions from exams like the GRE or Bar.
Probably because it fits the data. CoT and out of order questions from exams says nothing about whether it can generalize and adapt to things outside of its corpus.
It's incredibly easy to show that you are wrong and the models perform at high levels on questions that are clearly not in their training data.
Unless you think OpenAI is blatantly lying about this:
"A.1 Sourcing. We sourced either the most recent publicly-available official past exams, or practice exams in published third-party 2022-2023 study material which we purchased. We cross-checked these materials against the model’s training data to determine the extent to which the training data was not contaminated with any exam questions, which we also report in this paper."
"As can be seen in tables 9 and 10, contamination overall has very little effect on the reported results."
They also report results on uncontaminated data which shows basically no statistical difference.