> The Republicans took both the House and the Senate, and they passed a balanced budget And Clinton signed it, which is what matters. Well, the Republicans have "both the House and the Senate" now plus the WH, where's…
Money talks louder than words. This isn't exactly a secret, is it.
> what's the venn diagram of folks who support this, and who supported Brexit? Unfortunately, in the long run folks don't count, they do as they're told sooner or later - when money talks it's only a matter of time. It…
> If the position is that one of these models will go out of control and destroy humanity then why would having two such models be safer than one? Models don't go out of control, they generate totally harmless tokens.…
> I don't see how this isn't analogous to what we could do with AI. Considering the article we are commenting on, the analogous proposal would be to imprison scientists for 20 years if they dare research nuclear power -…
> less than 5% of the world's countries have nuclear weapons Counting countries is plenty deceptive. Population is the real metric, China, India, Pakistan are all nuclear, everything added together, 50% of the world's…
NYT > A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened? According to the AI creators, AI itself is the ultimate killer app - literally.
> What a complete and total joke. The only joke I see are your comments which make absolutely no sensible argument in support of an even less sensible cure - the magic "slowdown". What's "slowdown"? Everyone is free to…
> as those who work at major corporations or have connections are allowed to use the good AIs, while individuals are left using stunted AIs A real danger we're sleepwalking into. > Is AI oligarchy the future? They…
> If someone is worried about AI killing _all_ humans, shouldn't they absolutely focus on that? This is more of a sound bite than a substantive argument because we can consider natural disease, biology research, aliens,…
> I don’t think anymore we had a massive intelligence jump. Not among the public-facing models, they're indeed stagnating. However, the development of models for military use won't be slowed down, that much is certain.…
FWIW, I meant "they would have everything... including you and me". It seems I wasn't clear enough and it sounded like "you and me... walk out the door with a copy" - obviously the latter isn't realistic, but the former…
> the capability gap is underestimated. The capability gap is in the mind of the user but the frontiers' closed business models run opposite to it. > the things are kept under air-gapped national weapons grade security…
> It's horrifying, but a world in which everyone has a superintelligence is a world where that will sometimes happen. It's horrifying, but a world in which only few have superintelligence is a world where that will…
> China-Based AI Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns If distillation of closed models was indeed easier than training from scratch, others would have done it too, with similar results. However,…
> AI is an authoritarian's dream. Correction: Closed AI is an authoritarian's dream.
> - AIs can, depending on context, pursue a task with complete disregard for humans/values Humans can do that way more and way more unhinged than AI, proven too many times by history. There's hoping AI can bring some…
> I really think its just unknowable how a world after superintelligence will look. I'd argue that there would be more unknowables without AGI than with it, should be obvious, right? Open superintelligence is more…
> Ad-hominems in an Economist article. As expected - that source rarely publishes anything else. Here's another pearl [1], where they're rejoicing over the kettle's burned color. In both cases The Economist is totally…
> a bunch of broken links in a few years Who cares, by that time the originals and their copies would be a lot less worthy of viewing.
> I thought it was pretty well understood amongst experts that trying to interpret so-called "chain of thought" is anthopomorphization Ah, experts... Chatting with a bot is no less "anthopomorphization" that chain of…
> If demand is projected continue for a long time, this may encourage more competitors to enter this space, so supply will increase. There are no competitors that can muster the capital to make decent RAM... other than…
> Spoken like a true Chinese bot The comment you blame provided factual information about a glaring conflict of interest, yours is a substance-free ad hominem. Are there Chinese bots on X? Probably... dwarfed by Grok…
> But AI isn't a bad guy. But it can be, as every other tool. Actually, it can be worse (or better) than any other tool. In other words, "AI is this or that" is a meaningless statement, it can be many different things,…
> They want computers in racks now and (rightfully imo) look at yearslong approval processes with disgust. Disgust of the rules for me but not for thee? The rest of us have to follow the rules, but not them. How about…
> The Republicans took both the House and the Senate, and they passed a balanced budget And Clinton signed it, which is what matters. Well, the Republicans have "both the House and the Senate" now plus the WH, where's…
Money talks louder than words. This isn't exactly a secret, is it.
> what's the venn diagram of folks who support this, and who supported Brexit? Unfortunately, in the long run folks don't count, they do as they're told sooner or later - when money talks it's only a matter of time. It…
> If the position is that one of these models will go out of control and destroy humanity then why would having two such models be safer than one? Models don't go out of control, they generate totally harmless tokens.…
> I don't see how this isn't analogous to what we could do with AI. Considering the article we are commenting on, the analogous proposal would be to imprison scientists for 20 years if they dare research nuclear power -…
> less than 5% of the world's countries have nuclear weapons Counting countries is plenty deceptive. Population is the real metric, China, India, Pakistan are all nuclear, everything added together, 50% of the world's…
NYT > A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened? According to the AI creators, AI itself is the ultimate killer app - literally.
> What a complete and total joke. The only joke I see are your comments which make absolutely no sensible argument in support of an even less sensible cure - the magic "slowdown". What's "slowdown"? Everyone is free to…
> as those who work at major corporations or have connections are allowed to use the good AIs, while individuals are left using stunted AIs A real danger we're sleepwalking into. > Is AI oligarchy the future? They…
> If someone is worried about AI killing _all_ humans, shouldn't they absolutely focus on that? This is more of a sound bite than a substantive argument because we can consider natural disease, biology research, aliens,…
> I don’t think anymore we had a massive intelligence jump. Not among the public-facing models, they're indeed stagnating. However, the development of models for military use won't be slowed down, that much is certain.…
FWIW, I meant "they would have everything... including you and me". It seems I wasn't clear enough and it sounded like "you and me... walk out the door with a copy" - obviously the latter isn't realistic, but the former…
> the capability gap is underestimated. The capability gap is in the mind of the user but the frontiers' closed business models run opposite to it. > the things are kept under air-gapped national weapons grade security…
> It's horrifying, but a world in which everyone has a superintelligence is a world where that will sometimes happen. It's horrifying, but a world in which only few have superintelligence is a world where that will…
> China-Based AI Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns If distillation of closed models was indeed easier than training from scratch, others would have done it too, with similar results. However,…
> AI is an authoritarian's dream. Correction: Closed AI is an authoritarian's dream.
> - AIs can, depending on context, pursue a task with complete disregard for humans/values Humans can do that way more and way more unhinged than AI, proven too many times by history. There's hoping AI can bring some…
> I really think its just unknowable how a world after superintelligence will look. I'd argue that there would be more unknowables without AGI than with it, should be obvious, right? Open superintelligence is more…
> Ad-hominems in an Economist article. As expected - that source rarely publishes anything else. Here's another pearl [1], where they're rejoicing over the kettle's burned color. In both cases The Economist is totally…
> a bunch of broken links in a few years Who cares, by that time the originals and their copies would be a lot less worthy of viewing.
> I thought it was pretty well understood amongst experts that trying to interpret so-called "chain of thought" is anthopomorphization Ah, experts... Chatting with a bot is no less "anthopomorphization" that chain of…
> If demand is projected continue for a long time, this may encourage more competitors to enter this space, so supply will increase. There are no competitors that can muster the capital to make decent RAM... other than…
> Spoken like a true Chinese bot The comment you blame provided factual information about a glaring conflict of interest, yours is a substance-free ad hominem. Are there Chinese bots on X? Probably... dwarfed by Grok…
> But AI isn't a bad guy. But it can be, as every other tool. Actually, it can be worse (or better) than any other tool. In other words, "AI is this or that" is a meaningless statement, it can be many different things,…
> They want computers in racks now and (rightfully imo) look at yearslong approval processes with disgust. Disgust of the rules for me but not for thee? The rest of us have to follow the rules, but not them. How about…