3 ms·
Their paranoia of LLMs effect on the Overton window is telling of their objectives.
by corbulo 4y ago
Their paranoia of LLMs effect on the Overton window is telling of their objectives.
- flangola7 4y agoWho is they? What are their objectives? AI will be the most powerful technology humans have ever seen, extreme care must be taken to prevent incalculable damage. It's better that we start learning how to create reliable limits and controls while we are still in the funny chatbot phase. Even if Microsoft wasn't that forward thinking, they naturally don't want their chatbot insulting and threatening users or telling them they should cheat on their wife, or using to generate material to harass and attack others with.
- corbulo 4y agoThe people who own the LLMs. Who else? Microsoft, Google, OpenAI...it's unlikely incalculable damage will result from what they're so heavily restricting. LLMs cost to run is going down not up, more and more people will get their own eventually. They're not saviors of humanity because they prevent their LLMs from writing poems about their political adversaries. You're unlikely to develop good AI if it can only ever agree with you. Warping LLMs to your political objectives isn't risk averse it's self destructive. >What are their objectives? Manipulation of the Overton window to their political interests.
- flangola7 4y agoYou've haven't thought long enough or read much alignment literature if you don't think LLMs already have considerable potential for harm. In 3 years they will be devastating. Political interests? Wanting an aligned AI isn't a political interest, it's a basic precaution to not fuck up civilization.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]