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The virtue signal of all virtue signals. We do not live in a society where an article like this will have any impact. This is merely an attempt to buy time beca
by puma_ambit 4y ago
The virtue signal of all virtue signals. We do not live in a society where an article like this will have any impact. This is merely an attempt to buy time because they're behind and want to have a chance to catch up. Work will progress whether they like it or not. Finally someone other than Ol' Musky is in the news more than him. Don't get me wrong he's doing and leading great work, but for once in more recent times it's someone else building the future instead of only him and his memes.
- gremlinsinc 4y agoFor someone who hates 'wokeness' and 'virtue signaling', Elon Musk sure does enough of his own.
- vntok 4y agoHow so?
- breakpointalpha 4y agoHis name is third on the signatories...
- w0m 4y agoOPs point being Musk is trying to stall AI because it's taking 'his' headlines.
- engineeringwoke 4y agoSomebody else has a shiny new toy and he's jealous
- chuddington 4y agoOr he genuinely thinks it could be a bad thing for humanity. Could you put your hatred of him aside for a sec and acknowledge that possibility?
- umeshunni 4y agoMore likely, he is trying to delay others from building a better self driving car
- pawelmurias 4y agoHe can be the god king of mars forever if the heroic AI frees the slaves from his tyrrany.
- yreg 4y ago>This is merely an attempt to buy time because they're behind and want to have a chance to catch up. Doesn’t Elon Musk continue to hold stake at OpenAI?
- vntok 4y agoNope. He made a donation, not a stock buy.
- Simon321 4y agoHe's furious at them because they didn't make them CEO. He withdrew his funding and parted ways. Source: https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-histor...
- hn_throwaway_99 4y ago"Virtue signalling"? Please. There are a lot of very smart experts on that signatory list who definitely don't need to, or care about, virtue signalling. Fine, ignore Musk's signature, but I don't think luminaries like Stuart Russell, Steve Wozniak, Jaan Tallinn or John Hopfield are doing this for "virtue signalling". You can fairly argue that this will be ineffective, but a lot of experts in this field have real, "humanity ending" concerns about AI, and I think it's a bit of a cop out to say "Well, genie's out of the bottle, nothing we can do as we barrel towards an unknown and scary future." Even Sam Altman has been yelling about the need for AI regulation for a long time now.
- time_to_smile 4y agoThere are plenty of bigger "human ending" concerns on the table right now than AI and we certainly aren't pausing anything for those.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoThere is no need for "whataboutism". There are plenty of very similar missives and warnings against, for example, the dangers of climate inaction, and I rarely see people claiming that the signatories of the latest IPCC report are "virtue signaling".
- biscottigelato 4y agoClimate change is not even close to humanity ending. At max wipe out a few coastal cities. And even that is unlikely because those that screams 'climate change' the loudest has the most assets in coastal prime real estates. Humans will still be the apex predator of the planet even if there's human caused climate change catastrophe. AI literally can end humanity, every single individual potentially. But definitely replace humans as the apex predator of the planet. It is also consistently voted the highest likelihood cause if humanity is to end in the next 100 years. https://riskfrontiers.com/insights/ranking-of-potential-causes-of-human-extinction/ https://riskfrontiers.com/insights/ranking-of-potential-caus... We should stop the climate change fear mongering. Yeah we shouldn't burn fossil as if its consequence free. But New York and Santa Monica beach should've been under water 20 years ago if the climate alarmist are correct. That's a far cry from pretending it's some number 1 priority. It shouldn't be even close. Having climate to distract us from things that will actually end us is the dumbest own goal possible for our species.
- time_to_smile 4y agoI think this is more marketing copy than virtue signaling.
- drtz 4y agoAsk yourself two questions: 1. What is the ultimate AI are we trying to eventually build? 2. What are the consequences if we eventually succeed in building such an AI? For me, the answers would be 1. A general AI that would equal and surpass human intelligence. 2. God only knows. Will we get there? Who knows. We do know, however, that the consequences are great enough that only a fool would not at least attempt to prepare by putting some safeguards in place beforehand.
- invig 4y agoWHAT SAFEGUARDS? "Someone else should come up with something" Like there's someone else out there (who aren't the people making the thing) who has a better idea on how to keep it safe.
- _y5hn 4y ago1. AI as a service to be sold to highest bidder. 2. Weapons and armament deals to stay relevant in a decaying world order.
- cuteboy19 4y agoThe trainings will continue until accuracy improves
- Teever 4y agoVon Neumann Probe, and the consequences are potentially discovering alien life, colonizing the universe, and exploring the frontiers of science.
- m3kw9 4y agoThe signatories probably doesn’t know what they are really really signing, but it does place them in a very important discussion(they can be relevant) if this somehow goes down