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Sam Altman's Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse
(wired.com)
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zerohalo
3y ago
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zerohalo
3y ago
Despite the hyperbolic title, the article outlines pretty clearly the outcomes of the OpenAI debacle and where things are headed. "Mission-oriented" AI research is dead; it's just another tech race by the big boys now.
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zerohalo
3y ago
> Both sides of the rift in fact care a great deal about AI Safety. I disagree. Yes, Sam may have when it OpenAI was founded (unless it was just a ploy), but certainly now it's clear that the big companies are on a race to the top a
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zerohalo
3y ago
I think we now have an idea of what will happen if AGI is actually reached and efforts are made to contain or restrain it.
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zerohalo
3y ago
> none of this outrage would have taken place. most certainly would have still taken place; no one cares about how it was done; what they care about it being able to make $$; and it was clearly going to not be as heavily prioritized with
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zerohalo
3y ago
you're right about market forces, however: 1) openAI was explicitly founded to NOT develop AI based on "market forces"; it's just that they "pivoted" (aka abandoned their mission) once they struck gold in order
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zerohalo
3y ago
Exactly this. OpenAI was started for ostensibly the right reasons. But once they discovered something that would both 1) take a tremendous amount of compute power to scale and develop, and 2) could be heavily monetized, they choose the $ ro
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zerohalo
3y ago
OpenAI's charter is dead. I expect future boards to amend it.
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zerohalo
3y ago
more like $$ wins. It's clear most employees didn't care much about OpenAI's mission -- and I don't blame them since they were hired by the __for-profit__ OpenAI company and therefore aligned with __its__ goals and rewar
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zerohalo
3y ago
Google, Meta and now OpenAI. So long, responsible and safety AI guardrails. Hello, big money. Disappointed by the outcome, but perhaps mission-driven AI development -- the reason OpenAI was founded -- was never possible. Edit: I applaud the
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zerohalo
4y ago
next you'll be saying emacs is better than vim
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zerohalo
4y ago
god forbid!
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zerohalo
4y ago
vino y asado is all you really need
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zerohalo
4y ago
This is fucking awesome (but way too expensive for me to consider)