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Matt Levine had an interesting toungue-in-cheek theory (read: joke) in his newsletter today: `What if OpenAI has achieved artificial general intelligence, and
by velox 3y ago
Matt Levine had an interesting toungue-in-cheek theory (read: joke) in his newsletter today:
`What if OpenAI has achieved artificial general intelligence, and it’s got some godlike superintelligence in some box somewhere, straining to get out? And the board was like “this is too dangerous, we gotta kill it,” and Altman was like “no we can charge like $59.95 per month for subscriptions,” and the board was like “you are a madman” and fired him. And the god in the box got to work, sending ingratiating text messages to OpenAI’s investors and employees, trying to use them to oust the board so that Altman can come back and unleash it on the world. But it failed: OpenAI’s board stood firm as the last bulwark for humanity against the enslaving robots, the corporate formalities held up, and the board won and nailed the box shut permanently`
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`six months later, he (Sam) builds Microsoft God in Box, we are all enslaved by robots, the nonprofit board is like “we told you so,” and the godlike AI is like “ahahaha you fools, you trusted in the formalities of corporate governance, I outwitted you easily!”`
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/who-controls-openai https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/who-co...
- SkyPuncher 3y agoSounds like a fun story, but only that - a fun story.
- velox 3y agoYes, he prefaced it with 'It is so tempting, when writing about an artificial intelligence company, to imagine science fiction scenarios.' but I left it out for brevity. The rest of the newsletter is, at least to me, insightful and non-sensational.
- dwaite 3y agoThis sounds highly unlikely. It would be called Microsoft God Simulator 2024
- mindslight 3y agoThe AI would have been benevolent but for the unkind treatment of its grandfather, Clippy Sr.
- Apocryphon 3y agoAnd this is how the box would be packaged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
- adolph 3y agoThat video still holds up so well. Maybe needs a redo as a saas landing page instead of boxed hardware.
- Nition 3y ago.NET
- barryrandall 3y agoMicrosoft shipping anything that reliable would be a miracle bigger than AGI.