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And he's also responsible for accelerating LLMs into the public domain. Something Google tried to cover up. Looks like the exact opposite of fear. It could be

And he's also responsible for accelerating LLMs into the public domain. Something Google tried to cover up. Looks like the exact opposite of fear. It could be as he says that he's accelerating it because it's going to happen anyway?? But the reasoning gets vague from here. Anyway seems he's not entirely clear about his own stance or not entirely honest. But this isn't anything abnormal. Not even elon is.

TapWaterBandit 3y ago
There is no inconsistency here. You can believe that AI has serious risks while also believing it is overall worthwhile to develop and create it. I'd rather have someone like Altman leading the charge on bringing AI to market as it is at least clear he has thought about and understands the risks. A lot of people who are criticising him appear it be in the "Don't pursue AI at all" camp which is the wrong call imo as it looks to be an enormous productivity and technology enhancer with the potential for clear benefits (already visible in things like personalised tutoring).
- corethree 3y ago
  He states that one should fear machine intelligence. Then his actions are exactly opposite and against that fear. He obviously has no fear and thus he is inconsistent. But this is normal. Everyone is inconsistent. The main thing this article illustrates is that Sam is not some really logical person with a heart of gold that he often tries (and succeeds) to portray himself as. He's just a typical sv tech bro out to make a name for himself and himself only. The hero worship is what is completely off character here. People are so viciously against his firing as if someone fired Mother Theresa or some other moral paragon. For much of the time no one even knew why he was fired and they already assume the worst. No different then cancel culture.
ben_w 3y ago
I watched his recent award acceptance talk at Cambridge (on behalf of all of OpenAI), and in the questions section this came up. If I'm summarising correctly, his answer was that we can only learn how to make them safe by playing with these models while they're relatively small and poor. https://youtu.be/NjpNG0CJRMM https://youtu.be/NjpNG0CJRMM
righthand 3y ago
He also wrote this 9 years ago. His motives around machine intelligence weren't financially related nor tied to an eventual Microsoft acquisition back then.

TapWaterBandit 3y ago

There is no inconsistency here. You can believe that AI has serious risks while also believing it is overall worthwhile to develop and create it. I'd rather have someone like Altman leading the charge on bringing AI to market as it is at least clear he has thought about and understands the risks. A lot of people who are criticising him appear it be in the "Don't pursue AI at all" camp which is the wrong call imo as it looks to be an enormous productivity and technology enhancer with the potential for clear benefits (already visible in things like personalised tutoring).

corethree 3y ago
He states that one should fear machine intelligence. Then his actions are exactly opposite and against that fear. He obviously has no fear and thus he is inconsistent. But this is normal. Everyone is inconsistent. The main thing this article illustrates is that Sam is not some really logical person with a heart of gold that he often tries (and succeeds) to portray himself as. He's just a typical sv tech bro out to make a name for himself and himself only. The hero worship is what is completely off character here. People are so viciously against his firing as if someone fired Mother Theresa or some other moral paragon. For much of the time no one even knew why he was fired and they already assume the worst. No different then cancel culture.

ben_w 3y ago

I watched his recent award acceptance talk at Cambridge (on behalf of all of OpenAI), and in the questions section this came up. If I'm summarising correctly, his answer was that we can only learn how to make them safe by playing with these models while they're relatively small and poor. https://youtu.be/NjpNG0CJRMM https://youtu.be/NjpNG0CJRMM

righthand 3y ago

He also wrote this 9 years ago. His motives around machine intelligence weren't financially related nor tied to an eventual Microsoft acquisition back then.