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This is where I feel like legislation is pointless. In 10 years you'll be able to run GPT-4 on an old phone. Imagine what a fairly well funded group will be abl

This is where I feel like legislation is pointless. In 10 years you'll be able to run GPT-4 on an old phone. Imagine what a fairly well funded group will be able to do. There's no amount of legislation or technological guardrails that are getting this genie back in the bottle.

highwaylights 4y ago
This. It exists now, it’ll develop. That the potential is being realised means the money being pumped into competing implementations will continue to skyrocket so it’ll only accelerate from here. I would say it’s too late to do something about this, but in reality, wherever this is going was a foregone conclusion the moment early hominids began using tools. Technology doesn’t regress.
- kneebonian 4y ago
  > Technology doesn’t regress. I hate this assertion, true technology hasn't gone backwards much in the past 200 years, but honestly technology can and often does regress historically speaking. There have been plenty of times empires have risen and fallen, taking with them much of their knowledge. How much was lost when Rome decayed simply because there wasn't the structure in order to allow technologists to continue creating? Things are bigger and more interconnected this time so it is harder for an isolated event to cause things to fall backwards, but when it does the impact will be much larger.
  - lrvick 4y ago
    If you need evidence that technology regresses look no further than Facebook.
  - UncleEntity 4y ago
    > How much was lost when Rome decayed simply because there wasn't the structure in order to allow technologists to continue creating? Considering the Eastern Roman Empire existing until 1453 and the Middle Eastern empires did lots of scientific stuff I’d say not much.
- Yoric 4y ago
  > skyrocket Spell-checking suggestion: "skynet".
dwohnitmok 4y ago
> There's no amount of legislation or technological guardrails that are getting this genie back in the bottle. We're not getting the genie back in the bottle but there's still a lot of ways that we can change how we develop AI moving forward.

highwaylights 4y ago

This. It exists now, it’ll develop. That the potential is being realised means the money being pumped into competing implementations will continue to skyrocket so it’ll only accelerate from here. I would say it’s too late to do something about this, but in reality, wherever this is going was a foregone conclusion the moment early hominids began using tools. Technology doesn’t regress.

kneebonian 4y ago
> Technology doesn’t regress. I hate this assertion, true technology hasn't gone backwards much in the past 200 years, but honestly technology can and often does regress historically speaking. There have been plenty of times empires have risen and fallen, taking with them much of their knowledge. How much was lost when Rome decayed simply because there wasn't the structure in order to allow technologists to continue creating? Things are bigger and more interconnected this time so it is harder for an isolated event to cause things to fall backwards, but when it does the impact will be much larger.
- lrvick 4y ago
  If you need evidence that technology regresses look no further than Facebook.
- UncleEntity 4y ago
  > How much was lost when Rome decayed simply because there wasn't the structure in order to allow technologists to continue creating? Considering the Eastern Roman Empire existing until 1453 and the Middle Eastern empires did lots of scientific stuff I’d say not much.
Yoric 4y ago
> skyrocket Spell-checking suggestion: "skynet".

dwohnitmok 4y ago

> There's no amount of legislation or technological guardrails that are getting this genie back in the bottle. We're not getting the genie back in the bottle but there's still a lot of ways that we can change how we develop AI moving forward.