https://www.garbageday.email/p/cargo-cults-autocorrect
"Last week, a group of former OpenAI employees came forward with a very scary
warning that AI companies have been acting secretly and irresponsibly and need
to be regulated. Was this group of insiders ringing the alarm bell on rampant
copyright infringement? No. What about the fact that racial biases are being
encoded into these models? Nope. Misinformation and destruction of journalism?
Don’t be stupid.
Rather than anything that currently matters or even exists, this group is
actually very worried about “the loss of control of autonomous AI systems
potentially resulting in human extinction,” as they wrote on their website. It
makes for good headlines and is enough to earn them the token
New York Times
arms-crossed whistleblower photo, but let’s be real. This is just marketing.
That doesn’t mean I don’t think these people believe what they’re saying. They
definitely seem to. And that’s the problem.
If you’re a normal person, you might not know that two competing groups of
weird nerds in Silicon Valley have been locked in a cringe philosophical battle
over what both sides believe is the inevitable rise of an artificial super
intelligence. I wrote about this a few times last year, but here’s the best
TL;DR I can give you."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
