Are you saying statements like "...and then AI takes over the whole galaxy and comes back to eats us!" doesn't sound rational?
He is basically the next generation's Ray Kurzweil but instead of AI granting us biological immortality now AI is going to cause mass extinction.
Instead of uploading consciousness to some digital nirvana we get the slightest variation on The Matrix. "And then it takes over the galaxy and uses the atoms in our bodies for batteries!!"
With the way AI captures the imagination we can't but help take things to irrational extremes.
It obviously wouldn't. What makes the most sense is that Altman's ousting was orchestrated by Sutskever but he is too important to let go to another project or he would already be gone.
Would have hardly been a shock that "after an exhaustive search for the next CEO, we have decided the most capable person to replace the interim CEO is low and behold Ilya Sutskever."
The fact even I know Sutskever signed the petition is just another aspect of this Shakespearean drama, Sutskever doth protest too much me thinks.
which is ridiculous washing of his hands. he was on the board as chairman. he could have issued a dissenting statement on Friday, etc. that tweet that late was at best very weird and useless
I think there are many highly intelligent people that would prefer less intelligent people don't gain additional intelligence. They are perfectly happy with the relative value of their own intelligence and know that relative value goes way down in a world that everyone has access to additional intelligence.
I think the logic is flawed in thinking this way too. Most products have an overwhelming amount of choice. If you are not in the market for that category of product then the advertisement is not aimed at you. Even if you were annoyed by the the advertisement at that particular moment in time, if you are ever in the market for that category of product then the product will have brand recognition over its competitors and that is what is so huge and valuable.
IMO it is quite like the classic example of the heuristic that there is no such thing as bad press.
Sydney like everything with LLMs, was a one trick pony. What makes Sydney stand out is we didn't get enough time to see how limited the trick was. The removal and censoring makes it seem like a bigger deal than it was in reality.
I have had this experience over and over with generative AI across modalities. The first 10-20 experiences are mind blowing because you don't know what it can't do but then after a 1000 iterations you can see the trick and how limited everything is.
I don't believe that's the case. It's just the style of answers and conversation that is radically different. If you see GPT4 paper, you can see that the change was likely made because of RLHF to make GPT4 "safer".
They are only superpowers until you have made enough AI art to see how pathetically limited and un-creative midjourney is.
This is all a lot of nothing. A year ago at this time I thought we had reached the art singularity. Now after thousands of images, seeing any AI art makes me want to puke. It is just the same shit over and over and over because it is so limited in what it can actually make.
In the long run all AI art will do is make people appreciate human art more. Any human artist against AI art is an idiot.
It is not like web design or anything else. AI Art is a giant decentralized PR and unintentional advertising campaign that will show how awesome human artists are and how overhyped AI is.
In a few years people will view AI art as useless, shit, scriblings of non-artists. Why? Because that is exactly what it is.
I really can't imagine. I am super pissed and only over something I love that I pay 20 bucks a month for. I can't imagine the feeling of losing this kind of payout over what looks like complete bullshit. Not just the payout but being part of a team doing something so interesting and high profile + the payout.
I just don't know how they put the pieces back together here.
What really gets me down is I know our government is a lost cause but I at least had hope our companies were inoculated against petty, self-sabotaging bullshit. Even beyond that I had hope the AI space was inoculated and beyond that of all companies OpenAI would of course be inoculated from petty, self-sabotaging bullshit.
These idiots worried about software eating us are incapable of seeing the gas they are pouring on the processes that are taking us to a new dark age.
He is basically the next generation's Ray Kurzweil but instead of AI granting us biological immortality now AI is going to cause mass extinction.
Instead of uploading consciousness to some digital nirvana we get the slightest variation on The Matrix. "And then it takes over the galaxy and uses the atoms in our bodies for batteries!!"
With the way AI captures the imagination we can't but help take things to irrational extremes.