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There are two answers to this. Answer 1: Some people think that LLMs are a path to the singularity, a self-improving intelligent program that will vastly excee
by InsideOutSanta 2y ago
There are two answers to this.
Answer 1: Some people think that LLMs are a path to the singularity, a self-improving intelligent program that will vastly exceed human intelligence and will be able to increase its knowledge exponentially, quickly answering all answerable scientific questions.
Answer 2: LLM companies need to keep the hype train rolling. I didn't watch the whole clip; I jumped around a bit, but I noticed that every time Musk interjected something, it was to exaggerate what was previously said. "Grok contains the whole internet"—"the whole of human knowledge, actually!"
I think that both answer 1 and answer 2 apply to Musk. He seems to believe that they're building a god-like entity, and he also needs to keep the money train rolling.
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- Lutger 2y agoThere's a more short-term goal for Grok, which is to replace what is left of the federal government with AI. That will significantly boost the money train, but is also a utopian (for some, dystopian for others) goal of replacing the expensive 'deep state' with a slim set of impartial algorithms.
- lionkor 2y agoGlad I don't live in the US, that sounds like a miserable idea.
- widdershins 2y agoLLMs don't seem to be very impartial so far. Quite the opposite in fact, they're entirely beholden to the prejudices of their trainers.
- sebzim4500 2y agoThankfully grok does not seem to have the bias the Elon promised on twitter.
- amazingamazing 2y agoIs there a citation for this?
- captainclam 2y ago"Elon Musk Ally Tells Staff ‘AI-First’ Is the Future of Key Government Agency" from Wired https://archive.is/jyFCy https://archive.is/jyFCy This isn't unequivocal proof, but the broad goal automation lends itself pretty strongly to LLMs, and oh boy what LLM technology do you think they want to use.
- amarcheschi 2y agoan ai god would fit well with the dark enlightenment ideas of musk and his cronies
- randomcarbloke 2y ago>he also needs to keep the money train rolling. this and only this, everything he says when talking about how good his products are, he lies and exaggerates to get investors - from the promise of 2 manned missions to mars in 2024, to a 300 ton payload in space, and FSD. Whatever it takes to pad the wallet.
- voidUpdate 2y agoI'm pretty sure it doesn't contain the whole of human knowledge... I doubt grok knows my youtube password or my bank PIN
- smeeger 2y agohe may have deleted it but… around 2020 or so there was starting to be a lot of hype about llms. elon musk responded to a “doomer” on twitter saying that he “didnt see the potential for that” referring to LLMs achieving AGI. it was a 100% dismissal of everything he is saying now. at that point elon musk had already been saying publicly for years “AI is more dangerous than nukes.” but he also had voluntarily walked away from openAI which he would never do if he thought there was any chance of AGI. i just want to known the truth… is this really just advanced search and some jobs will be lost because they ended up being nothing more than search tasks (ie coding boilerplate) or are we really on the cusp of AGI (and therefore in a great deal of danger)? its impossible to say whether or not elon musk really believes what he is saying… there are public figures on both sides providing conflicting explanations. as i watched the grok3 stream i became very angry. so very tired of being jerked around and not knowing whether or not i should be planning for the future or investing in the world as it is now… its really a form of psychological torture