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Here's a WSJ article about this resignation, https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-researcher-quits-over-out-of-control-ai-fears-707b7628 https://www.wsj.com/t

by peri-cl 1mo ago

Here's a WSJ article about this resignation, https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-researcher-quits-over-out-of-control-ai-fears-707b7628 https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-researcher-quits-over-... ("Anthropic Researcher Quits Over ‘Out-of-Control’ AI Fears")

Insanity 1mo ago
Shows that no one is immune from the marketing BS of these companies.
- vonneumannstan 1mo ago
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- whalebiologist1 1mo ago
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- qarl 1mo ago
  You need to start considering the possibility you are mistaken.
- whateveracct 1mo ago
  high on their own supply
  - aswegs8 1mo ago
    for sure, they internally are maximally AI-pilled (or AI psychosis, whatever you prefer)
- LoganDark 1mo ago
  Do you remember that Google researcher who went insane over LaMDA? There was no marketing of any kind to cause that. This can Just Happen to some people who are confronted with things like this. They may have different breaking points, but it's a thing that occasionally happens.
  - Kim_Bruning 1mo ago
    That was Blake Lemoine. For the record: he doesn't appear to have been ruled insane by anyone, and he wasn't even fired over that part exactly!
    - LoganDark 1mo ago
      I mostly meant insane as in excessively fanatic about something specific and eccentric, instead of generally clinically insane.
  - dlcarrier 1mo ago
    The craziest part was that Google was pretty far behind other LLMs in development. Even the initial release of Gemini was one of the worst foundation models ever open to the public. I can't imagine how anyone could have communicated to it and thought it was sentient.
bwfan123 1mo ago
More doomerism. Try to implement a deterministic workflow using agents with the latest models and no humans-in-the-loop, and you will realize what they are really capable of. There is too much unnecessary fear-mongering. All of this is only coming from the 2 AI labs trying to IPO. Not from anyone else.
- ViscountPenguin 1mo ago
  Exactly correct, they are only capable of tasks that any school child could do; like solving millenium prize problems, hacking into tech companies, or tuning particle colliders. Nothing to see here.
  - deleted 1mo ago
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  - jesse_dot_id 1mo ago
    There are humans behind all of these actions. We're just not holding them responsible for some reason re: hacking into tech companies.
- csomar 1mo ago
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  - dang 1mo ago
    > Truly idiotic moments. Peak of Western civilization point. Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? This is particularly bad. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. You've been here a long time, but you've unfortunately been doing this so much in recent years that I've begun to wince when I see your username. Not a good sign. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- mofeien 1mo ago
  > All of this is only coming from the 2 AI labs trying to IPO. He has resigned from Anthropic. Is your argument that he quit Anthropic pre-IPO, sacrificing his payoff just to hype Anthropic?
ncr100 1mo ago
https://archive.is/7UHoa https://archive.is/7UHoa

by peri-cl 1mo ago

Insanity 1mo ago

Shows that no one is immune from the marketing BS of these companies.

vonneumannstan 1mo ago
[flagged]
whalebiologist1 1mo ago
[dead]
qarl 1mo ago
You need to start considering the possibility you are mistaken.
whateveracct 1mo ago
high on their own supply
- aswegs8 1mo ago
  for sure, they internally are maximally AI-pilled (or AI psychosis, whatever you prefer)
LoganDark 1mo ago
Do you remember that Google researcher who went insane over LaMDA? There was no marketing of any kind to cause that. This can Just Happen to some people who are confronted with things like this. They may have different breaking points, but it's a thing that occasionally happens.
- Kim_Bruning 1mo ago
  That was Blake Lemoine. For the record: he doesn't appear to have been ruled insane by anyone, and he wasn't even fired over that part exactly!
  - LoganDark 1mo ago
    I mostly meant insane as in excessively fanatic about something specific and eccentric, instead of generally clinically insane.
- dlcarrier 1mo ago
  The craziest part was that Google was pretty far behind other LLMs in development. Even the initial release of Gemini was one of the worst foundation models ever open to the public. I can't imagine how anyone could have communicated to it and thought it was sentient.

bwfan123 1mo ago

More doomerism. Try to implement a deterministic workflow using agents with the latest models and no humans-in-the-loop, and you will realize what they are really capable of. There is too much unnecessary fear-mongering. All of this is only coming from the 2 AI labs trying to IPO. Not from anyone else.

ViscountPenguin 1mo ago
Exactly correct, they are only capable of tasks that any school child could do; like solving millenium prize problems, hacking into tech companies, or tuning particle colliders. Nothing to see here.
- deleted 1mo ago
  [deleted]
- jesse_dot_id 1mo ago
  There are humans behind all of these actions. We're just not holding them responsible for some reason re: hacking into tech companies.
csomar 1mo ago
[flagged]
- dang 1mo ago
  > Truly idiotic moments. Peak of Western civilization point. Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? This is particularly bad. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. You've been here a long time, but you've unfortunately been doing this so much in recent years that I've begun to wince when I see your username. Not a good sign. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
mofeien 1mo ago
> All of this is only coming from the 2 AI labs trying to IPO. He has resigned from Anthropic. Is your argument that he quit Anthropic pre-IPO, sacrificing his payoff just to hype Anthropic?

ncr100 1mo ago

https://archive.is/7UHoa https://archive.is/7UHoa