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I've been saying this for awhile now. The real risk isn't Colossus. It's governments spending billions of dollars to create enormous datacenters running the lar
by RagnarD 3y ago
I've been saying this for awhile now. The real risk isn't Colossus. It's governments spending billions of dollars to create enormous datacenters running the largest LLMs (and beyond) and using them to process the databases that Snowden warned about. You can be completely certainly that governments have no interest in making their own systems "safe". They'll be used - after ingesting vast amounts of data on everyone - to ask how to gain totalitarian control in the fastest yet least resistance way. How to target specific individuals in various ways, including assassination which looks like an accident or "natural causes".
- worik 3y agoThe risk of the state doing that, in western "democracies" is variable country to country, but lower than the the risk of private corporations doing it. Our governments, to varying degrees, are under democratic control. Private corporations are not
- RagnarD 3y agoYou mean the way Snowden's revelations led to illegal databases being shut down? Oh wait, they weren't?
- krupan 3y agoThey are all going to do it, but governments have far scarier powers when it comes to what they can do with the information they'll learn from prism-llm
- mrguyorama 3y agoIf an LLM can magically invent a way to kill someone with plausible deniability, that is just as dangerous for a private company or citizen to have as a government. I would argue worse actually, because most CEOs seem to believe if you can murder someone and get away with it and it would benefit your business, you are legally required to do it.
- worik 3y ago> They are all going to do it, but governments have far scarier powers when it comes to what they can do with the information they'll learn from prism-llm No. Not to you and I. The government may spy on you, routinely, but it does nothing to you with that data. Private power routinely spies on you too, and has an agenda about how to use that data to their advantage, not to yours.
- krupan 3y agoI'm afraid I have some bad news for you about governments
- mrguyorama 3y agoPeter Thiel literally already sells this. He calls it "Palentir" because he is an ass
- haldujai 3y agoThere is zero chance congress adds regulatory hurdles to the NSA to stop them from building PRISM-LLM in the name of protecting the homeland. The only thing that can be regulated is private citizens and corporations.