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Some of the people reading this article and seeing that this is "bias" I think are missing the point. The author is not biased. Instead they are just giving a
by stale2002 3y ago
Some of the people reading this article and seeing that this is "bias" I think are missing the point.
The author is not biased. Instead they are just giving a window into the world of what many of the people at OpenAI actually believe. (Perhaps there are some people there just doing web dev for a job... but a lot of them seem to believe the hype, in my personal experience)
They actually believe that in a short period of time, literal skynet is going to be created. And they think that they are pretty much the only ones capable of stopping an evil skynet by creating a good skynet themselves. And they think that anyone else working on AI is so dangerous that it might end the world.
This implications of this belief are obvious, if you take them at face value. (even though it is nonsense).
What they are going to try to do is lobby the government to destroy the open source AI movement and make sure only a couple big companies are allowed to run or train their own models. And they've already fired the first shots due to their existing efforts to work with congress.
Do not dismiss these beliefs as hype. Instead, take them at their word that this is what they believe. That is the only way that you will understand the threat that they could be to the quickly emerging open source AI movement that has shown so much promise lately.