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Pushing "accelerate" costs a great deal. Investors will want a return on their capital: either in money pressed from unequal access to the resulting paradise or
by mLuby 4y ago
Pushing "accelerate" costs a great deal. Investors will want a return on their capital: either in money pressed from unequal access to the resulting paradise or in direct power over this new god.
- sinenomine 4y agoWith billions upon billions spent on Big Science, asking the government to spend just 1 billion on an AI training run with guaranteed spectacular results doesn't sound too outlandish. Why should we pay taxes, if the government won't even train AI for us, given such opportunity?
- mLuby 4y agoAGI is an existential threat to human-led governments. Why would they build something to displace them?
- sinenomine 4y agoWe all know that analogies from Hollywood classic scifi movies aren't productive or even at all useful in our mundane reality. The general-purpose AI is going to be a very useful, obedient, capable tool, and the great powers are going to seek ownership over it, like they do with various military and space technologies.