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You can't really undo this the cat is already out of the bag and most likely we will have open source reimplementations of ChatGPT soon. I also see if we were t

You can't really undo this the cat is already out of the bag and most likely we will have open source reimplementations of ChatGPT soon. I also see if we were to keep it secret doesn't really work. Once you even publish a paper describing the system immediately it is going to be reproduced. This happened with Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT is next. A good analogy would be the knowledge required to make a nuclear weapon. The scientific knowledge to understand how to do it would be in a high school physics class but the hard part is refining the nuclear material. Reproducing ChatGPT requires a large amount of expensive server time but once you have the model working it can be distributed very easily.

vouaobrasil 4y ago
What you can do is refuse to participate in it though. I used to be a researcher in a related field and I have decided to stop publishing anything that could remotely be used to further advancements in computer science and AI technology. I will never work in that field again because it is too detrimental to humanity. You can also refuse to support any such project financially -- if you can make decisions in a company, don't use it. Unfortunately, the situation of companies using new technology is like a prisoner's dilemma situation, so most people will use it if it maximizes their profit. That is why I think we need government regulation on a global scale .
- scrollaway 4y ago
  > I will never work in that field again because it is too detrimental to humanity. And that is a personal opinion. I'm of a different opinion, so this past year I started focusing more and more on AI technology. YMMV. Maybe it's detrimental, maybe it's the most powerful thing we've ever built. I'm old enough to have heard these arguments about the internet itself, and while the internet absolutely has downsides, hearing some people say that we'd be better off without just saddens me. We've made life better for many; made education more reachable than ever; littered the world with free high quality knowledge; solved incredible science-fiction like problems; made long distance real time face-to-face communication possible; etc. It'll be the same for AI. And it too will have downsides.
  - amelius 4y ago
    You sound a bit like Oppenheimer now.
    - scrollaway 4y ago
      And you sound a bit like a luddite. Please respect people's opinions; I respect yours.

vouaobrasil 4y ago

What you can do is refuse to participate in it though. I used to be a researcher in a related field and I have decided to stop publishing anything that could remotely be used to further advancements in computer science and AI technology. I will never work in that field again because it is too detrimental to humanity. You can also refuse to support any such project financially -- if you can make decisions in a company, don't use it. Unfortunately, the situation of companies using new technology is like a prisoner's dilemma situation, so most people will use it if it maximizes their profit. That is why I think we need government regulation on a global scale .

scrollaway 4y ago
> I will never work in that field again because it is too detrimental to humanity. And that is a personal opinion. I'm of a different opinion, so this past year I started focusing more and more on AI technology. YMMV. Maybe it's detrimental, maybe it's the most powerful thing we've ever built. I'm old enough to have heard these arguments about the internet itself, and while the internet absolutely has downsides, hearing some people say that we'd be better off without just saddens me. We've made life better for many; made education more reachable than ever; littered the world with free high quality knowledge; solved incredible science-fiction like problems; made long distance real time face-to-face communication possible; etc. It'll be the same for AI. And it too will have downsides.
- amelius 4y ago
  You sound a bit like Oppenheimer now.
  - scrollaway 4y ago
    And you sound a bit like a luddite. Please respect people's opinions; I respect yours.