I'm so proud of the board for sticking to their principles over profit. This is a huge victory for all of us, and a chance for everyone to come together and approach AGI safely and for the benefit of all.
But if you do believe, I don't see how this a "victory."
OpenAI is now existentially at risk. Even if it does survive it will very likely lose its dominance to a non-"AI safety" commercial endeavor.
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Classic "biting the hand that feeds you" https://youtu.be/Lg2dqFCU67Q?si=TWX8slGW_8hLdgQu&t=35
Encryption can be used for good things and bad things. And yet no one is talking about "encryption safety."
Okay, you are getting me off topic, but this is totally not the case. Hasn't governments been especially interesting in dealing with encryption lately? UK or EU (can't remember which) being most recently raising the pitchforks.
Anyway, the more important thing for me to point out is that AI is anticipated to possess exponential properties that technology like encryption does not have. Encryption is predictable while AI is not.
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Fair enough :)
People have been talking about it, and it's a similarly bad idea.
> Encryption is predictable while AI is not.
Banking info vs child porn is pretty divergent.
Lol not sure where I want to take this and it's getting pretty late...
Edit to add: if you believe the rapid commercialization of frontier models at OpenAI was a cancer that needed to be destroyed, the likely outcome of the board's clumsy handling is that it probably now metastasizes.
Personally I think this is where they'll end up stagnating, although I'm happy to be wrong. It's going to make recruiting top talent far harder, and ultimately this hiccup will cause them to lose their edge. Losing that edge lessens the desire to go there, which will drive down competitiveness, which will further pull them back from the fray. I believe it'll make the US less competitive, which makes me sad.
The only risk AGI poses to the average american is unemployment. If immigration/outsourcing is fine, i don't see anthing being done about this.
Now that sam is out and his new ai startup if he makes one will be a new entrant in the ai space, he probably should have waited a couple weeks before recommending all the ai regulations.
As an aside, i would support a system like the patent system where if new ai models are going to be heavily regulated, then the uncensored/pre-gated weights of the already launched model should be released to the public in much the same way your patent idea is protected but you have to release the design in the application.
"Why You Should Fear Machine Intelligence"
https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1
It's unfortunate how crank people on HN like you turn when it comes to this grave topic. Multiple people, for years, many without incentive, will tell you what they think and you will just "no they're lying," especially when YC has placed a huge amount of value on earnestness forever. Not too mention they've addressed the regulation conspiracy and how the regulation restricts them and big co's, not GPT4 level models by anyone smaller.