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> Note that Jeff and crew have cleverly structured their company to avoid problematic uses of AI Do you have more sources/info on this?
by 2001zhaozhao 2mo ago
> Note that Jeff and crew have cleverly structured their company to avoid problematic uses of AI
Do you have more sources/info on this?
- moralestapia 2mo agox2 All the "bad guys" of today were the "good guys" at some point in time. You even cheered for them back then.
- sidibe 2mo agoMaybe a little naive for this but given the decades Jeff Dean and Sanjay have been contributing to so many things in the industry and never heard a bad word about either, they never seemed to reach for attention or self promote, going to give them a little more of a cachet of trust.
- tmoertel 2mo agoThey do not call attention to this aspect of their new company, but it is implicit in their business model: https://xcancel.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724 https://xcancel.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724 In short, they are in the business of using AI to automate the discovery of useful knowledge, not to sell general-purpose AI capabilities that could be directly used in troubling ways.
- 2001zhaozhao 2mo agoThe question is what they plan on doing with all their scientific knowledge once they succeed. Sure, they'll keep it internal for a while to make sure their knowledge bank is more thorough than everyone else's, and because oftentimes discoveries can be far more convincing internally than externally (you need fewer sigmas for it to update your belief in a certain direction). But then how do they intend to profit from it in the end?
- scottyah 2mo agoThese are all top-class engineers entering retirement age and none of them are hurting for money. This seems like Don Knuth working on finishing his books, or Tim Berners-Lee working on Solid.