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While true the ones doing media tours and speaking the most vocally in May 2023 are the LLM crowd. I don’t think it’s a mischaracterization to say OpenAI has s

• ben_w 3y ago
  To the extent that this may be true (I've not exactly studied which public thinkpiece writers care about which AI so it might easily be the image generators that get this crown for all I know), that's because ChatGPT actually does something that a normal person understands. A paper titled "Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery" (published last year) got a few angst pieces and is mostly forgotten by the general public and media so far as I can tell; but the people behind it both talked directly to regulators and other labs to help advise them how many other precursor chemicals were now potential threats, and also went onto the usual podcasts and other public forums to raise awareness of the risk to other AI researchers. The story behind that was "ugh, they want us to think about risks… what if we ask it to find dangerous chemicals instead of safe ones? *overnight* oh no!"