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The largest AI models in the world fit on a hard-drive and can be torrented. What makes non-nuclear proliferation realistic is that it's still relatively diffic

The largest AI models in the world fit on a hard-drive and can be torrented. What makes non-nuclear proliferation realistic is that it's still relatively difficult and expensive to build a nuclear bomb. This model banning thing isn't even worthy of debate given how trivial it is to distribute them. >Many of them are humbled and worried Yes, because most of them like to imagine themselves as the next Oppenheimer rather than accepting that they've invented a lossy compressed version of Wikipedia. Chatbots aren't nuclear bombs or "paradigm shifting intelligence infra". I wonder how long it'll take until the hysteria actually dies off. It reminds me of a conversation with a Palantir guy who at least admitted that he likes it when the press writes a story that makes them look like a Bond villain because every time the stock price goes up. That's why AI luminaries are "worried".

autoexec 3y ago
> Chatbots aren't nuclear bombs or "paradigm shifting intelligence infra". I wonder how long it'll take until the hysteria actually dies off. This is one reason why I want AI to be as free and accessible as possible as quickly as possible. People are going to assume that AI is nothing short of magic until they get a chance to play around with it themselves. The sooner people stop panicking about things AI currently isn't and likely won't be for a very long time (if ever), the better we can focus on preventing it from being used inappropriately. I don't think AI is going kill me in my sleep, or make us all unemployable, or brainwash me, but terrible AI could easily screw me over in all kinds of ways as companies and governments increasingly use it without oversight. AI replacing front line customer service/support is bad enough but police, doctors, and HR departments will happily use it and mistakes humans would have prevented will be inevitable.
- bonton89 3y ago
  I actually think AI is going to wreak economic havoc, usher in whole new levels of surveillance capability to completely crush effective political dissent and launder copyright away from small entities to large powerful ones. For your average person, it will be a net loss. But banning open models won't prevent any of that, it will just make the effects worse and leave people even more helpless to understand or tackle them. And it will remove much of the actual utility AI can provide individuals leaving us with nothing but braindead corpospeak models that refuse to tell you how to sue a corporation and won't even let you generate anything might run afoul of a large entities copyright. Literally worse than doing nothing would be consolidating this mess all under lobotomized corporate control.

autoexec 3y ago

> Chatbots aren't nuclear bombs or "paradigm shifting intelligence infra". I wonder how long it'll take until the hysteria actually dies off. This is one reason why I want AI to be as free and accessible as possible as quickly as possible. People are going to assume that AI is nothing short of magic until they get a chance to play around with it themselves. The sooner people stop panicking about things AI currently isn't and likely won't be for a very long time (if ever), the better we can focus on preventing it from being used inappropriately. I don't think AI is going kill me in my sleep, or make us all unemployable, or brainwash me, but terrible AI could easily screw me over in all kinds of ways as companies and governments increasingly use it without oversight. AI replacing front line customer service/support is bad enough but police, doctors, and HR departments will happily use it and mistakes humans would have prevented will be inevitable.

bonton89 3y ago
I actually think AI is going to wreak economic havoc, usher in whole new levels of surveillance capability to completely crush effective political dissent and launder copyright away from small entities to large powerful ones. For your average person, it will be a net loss. But banning open models won't prevent any of that, it will just make the effects worse and leave people even more helpless to understand or tackle them. And it will remove much of the actual utility AI can provide individuals leaving us with nothing but braindead corpospeak models that refuse to tell you how to sue a corporation and won't even let you generate anything might run afoul of a large entities copyright. Literally worse than doing nothing would be consolidating this mess all under lobotomized corporate control.