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It's hard to call anything that comes from LeCun "news": any time you hear of a phenomenon in the ML/AI space, you know pretty much exactly the sentiment he's g
by uoaei 3y ago
It's hard to call anything that comes from LeCun "news": any time you hear of a phenomenon in the ML/AI space, you know pretty much exactly the sentiment he's going to express. His entire brand is "doomers are wrong, you can trust me, I am AI daddy".
- renewiltord 3y agoDoomers thought GPT-2 was too dangerous to release. I guess one can be Dalio successful by calling doom at every instant like Dalio.
- uoaei 3y agoAnd one can be unfalsifiably successful by using mass media to proclaim safety at every instant. The irony is that if things do fail these kinds of pronouncements can no longer be made using tools like Twitter, etc. on which influencers like LeCun build their brands, since their existence and utility depends on the stability of society.
- PopePompus 3y agoYes, the Anti-doomers will be right many times, and wrong at most once.
- wkat4242 3y agoThe point is moot anyway. If someone can build it someone will. Laws and impending Doom or not. It's probably going to be better if it's us than Russia or China.
- benatkin 3y agoThat's a reductive argument, and won't work with me. What we have is tantamount to an arms race, and trying to suppress another country's development of tech that could be used against them is a thing. We have already restricted access to our microchips to China specifically and Russia through broad sanctions. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/business/economy/ai-chips-china-restrictions.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/17/business/economy/ai-chips... Russia isn't poised for the current crop of AI tech anyway.
- zdragnar 3y agoSanctions slow down advancement, but they don't stop it. Someone, somewhere is going to say "fuck it" and build it regardless. What they can do is ensure that the sanctioned entities are always at least a generation behind. That's not especially helpful in the context of "anti-doomers will be wrong exactly once" unfortunately.
- dilyevsky 3y ago> We have already restricted access to our microchips to China specifically and Russia through broad sanctions. LOL and how is that working?
- Moldoteck 3y agoDidn't china manage to produce 5nm chips recently? I mean yes, it's not 3nm but this just means a bit of slowdown, but they have both will& resources to go forward. Just look at their advancements in network wide blocking & face recognition, just like how their big players released pretty damn powerful llms
- astrange 3y ago> and wrong at most once. No reason to believe this, it hasn't been true for any other dangerous technologies like biological weapons or nuclear power.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoWell, GPT-2 led directly to GPT-3. GPT-3 led to GPT-3.5 and then to GPT-4. GPT-4 might lead to all of us losing our source of income, so they may yet be proven right (economic turmoil can be an x-risk if it's large enough).
- discard129 3y ago[dead]
- concordDance 3y agoWho thought that? I don't know of anyone who thought that and I'm in doomer circles.
- tayo42 3y agoThey had a phased release of gpt2 because they thought the world couldn't handle the full model
- 9cb14c1ec0 3y agoFortunately, humanity is good at adapting. I remember when gpt2 was going to end the world. Many people can now easily identify when a piece of text was generated by gpt4. This is adaption.