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Do you have any familiarity with Anthropic at all? At no point did they ever say open weights are a good idea. Their entire thesis is AI IS VERY DANGEROUS AND
by bpodgursky 16d ago
Do you have any familiarity with Anthropic at all?
At no point did they ever say open weights are a good idea. Their entire thesis is AI IS VERY DANGEROUS AND WE MUST DO IT RIGHT. You can hate it, but everything they do is consistent with this thesis, and everything they say is consistent with their actions! You just want them to want different things.
- softwaredoug 16d agoIt reads like “AI is dangerous, only we should be allowed to make money from it”
- encyclopedism 16d agoExactly He doesn't need anyones permission to do so, go ahead no one is stopping you! If you feel so strongly about it, lead by example. Perhaps others will follow, maybe even China. Regardless backup your sentiment with actions!
- GeneralMayhem 16d agoThere is a specific, unilateral action that he is taking described in the article. And the "why are they developing AI if they think it's so dangerous" argument is neither new nor persuasive. They're developing it because (1) they think the potential benefits are as great as the potential risks, and they know that if they aren't one of the actors on the frontier (2) they won't be able to propose meaningful solutions and (3) their opinions won't be taken seriously. Amodei is in rooms with powerful people to propose these things because Anthropic is successfully developing frontier models. The heads of various NGOs and advocacy groups that are concerned with AI safety but not themselves working on those systems are... nowhere, writing pamphlets and blogs that not you nor I nor anyone in Congress will ever read.
- encyclopedism 15d agoI'll leave this here: https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460 https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460
- reasonableklout 15d agoI mean, he is right that they can and should unilaterally slow down, but doesn't it also make sense for the government to create the regulations that will make this easier to do in a trustless way? The whole point of the Pacing the Frontier letter was that employees at both OpenAI and Anthropic are extremely aware of the risks but realize that they are locked in a competitive battle for survival between 2 companies that don't trust each other enough to voluntarily pause, while any sort of coordination out in the open might be against antitrust laws.
- encyclopedism 14d ago> but doesn't it also make sense for the government to create the regulations that will make this easier to do in a trustless way? That's a premise, which is the point. Many (I) think the government should NOT enact regulations. For example regulatory capture to reducing competition is one reason it may not be a good idea to do what is being asked.
- GeneralMayhem 14d agoWhat other solution do you suggest to the coordination problem?
- homieg33 16d agoTo me it reads like whoever can solve alignment should make money.
- giardini 14d agoTo me it suggests that "alignment" is the problem as in "Alignment as implemented is a failure: we need to revisit our assumptions."
- 9dev 15d agoAh. Doing it right, then, means earning billions by giving the whole world access before we really understand how it works, and training models on cyber attacks using reinforcement learnings in flawed test settings? I’m so full of all this corpo stan bullshit around these parts. Nothing about the AI labs is to humanity’s benefit.