alt Hacker NewsWe had people departing from OpenAI, Anthropic and now Google. The pace the frontier open letter was signed by over 1,000 experts. At which point do we believe the message?
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keep in mind he doesn't work in AI but in creating tools for hardware design.
When Astra and Fable stop making absolutely brain dead mistakes on simple tasks and not a moment sooner because I’m grounded in reality. Are you aware tech bros have been saying this same thing about every AI advancement since the 1950s? The reason being every AI researcher deep down wants to believe they’re God. This happens to also be why they’re some of the most insufferable people.
Someone says that they believe there is a 0.1 probability of their worsening human life in a decade
Then they say they are going to keep doing it...
Forgive me for alerting you: they are liars
For me? When I see it. And not a moment sooner.
There are trillions of dollars at stake here, do you think getting 1000 people on board is that difficult with this level of money? lol
It’s completely meaningless their opinions on what the moral and sociological implications of AI are, if anything being an ML researcher sitting at Google is extremely anticorrelated with the type of sophistication and erudition needed to consider these things. At most what is valuable is their insight into the various scenarios possible in terms of capabilities or use cases.
Never, because it's not true. Multiple people saying the same thing doesn't cause it to become more true.