#aidoomsters — Public Fediverse posts

I mostly agree with this stance but, ultimately, intellectual property theft is an oximoron. Arguing for a more draconian enforcement of intellectual property rights is a reactionary position that only leads to more wealth concentration and monopoly formation.

"The LLMs (large language models) that power current AI are specifically trained to mimic human linguistic behavior, so it’s easy for gullible folks who don’t understand how LLMs work to think the system might be conscious, sentient, capable of suffering, or deserving of “a reward” (which humans, in the same situation, would appreciate, but which means literally nothing to AI).

What I find most appalling is the utter hypocrisy of the people who claim to care about “model welfare.” Not once have I seen MacAskill, for example, say anything about the actual harms that Anthropic has caused to real, living, breathing people — beings we know for a fact can actually suffer. He is, to my knowledge, completely silent about worker exploitation, intellectual property theft, and the fact that Anthropic is literally seeking investments from autocratic states like the UAE and Qatar."

https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-utter-hypocrisy-of-anthropic

#AI #GenerativeAI #Anthropic #AGI #AIDoomsters #AIDoomsterism

I mostly agree with this stance but, ultimately, intellectual property theft is an oximoron. Arguing for a more draconian enforcement of intellectual property rights is a reactionary position that only leads to more wealth concentration and monopoly formation.

"The LLMs (large language models) that power current AI are specifically trained to mimic human linguistic behavior, so it’s easy for gullible folks who don’t understand how LLMs work to think the system might be conscious, sentient, capable of suffering, or deserving of “a reward” (which humans, in the same situation, would appreciate, but which means literally nothing to AI).

What I find most appalling is the utter hypocrisy of the people who claim to care about “model welfare.” Not once have I seen MacAskill, for example, say anything about the actual harms that Anthropic has caused to real, living, breathing people — beings we know for a fact can actually suffer. He is, to my knowledge, completely silent about worker exploitation, intellectual property theft, and the fact that Anthropic is literally seeking investments from autocratic states like the UAE and Qatar."

https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-utter-hypocrisy-of-anthropic

#AI #GenerativeAI #Anthropic #AGI #AIDoomsters #AIDoomsterism

#AI #AGI #AIDoomsters #AIEthics #SiliconValley #BigTech: "In theory, the benefits of advanced A.I. could be almost limitless. Build a trusty superhuman oracle, fill it with information (every peer-reviewed scientific article, the contents of the Library of Congress), and watch it spit out answers to our biggest questions: How can we cure cancer? Which renewable fuels remain undiscovered? How should a person be? “I’m generally pro-A.I. and against slowing down innovation,” Robin Hanson, an economist who has had friendly debates with the doomers for years, told me. “I want our civilization to continue to grow and do spectacular things.” Even if A.G.I. does turn out to be dangerous, many in Silicon Valley argue, wouldn’t it be better for it to be controlled by an American company, or by the American government, rather than by the government of China or Russia, or by a rogue individual with no accountability? “If you can avoid an arms race, that’s by far the best outcome,” Ben Goldhaber, who runs an A.I.-safety group, told me. “If you’re convinced that an arms race is inevitable, it might be understandable to default to the next best option, which is, Let’s arm the good guys before the bad guys.”

One way to do this is to move fast and break things. In 2021, a computer programmer and artist named Benjamin Hampikian was living with his mother in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Almost every day, he found himself in Twitter Spaces—live audio chat rooms on the platform—that were devoted to extravagant riffs about the potential of future technologies. “We didn’t have a name for ourselves at first,” Hampikian told me. “We were just shitposting about a hopeful future, even when everything else seemed so depressing.”"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/among-the-ai-doomsayers

#AI #AGI #AIDoomsters #AIEthics #SiliconValley #BigTech: "In theory, the benefits of advanced A.I. could be almost limitless. Build a trusty superhuman oracle, fill it with information (every peer-reviewed scientific article, the contents of the Library of Congress), and watch it spit out answers to our biggest questions: How can we cure cancer? Which renewable fuels remain undiscovered? How should a person be? “I’m generally pro-A.I. and against slowing down innovation,” Robin Hanson, an economist who has had friendly debates with the doomers for years, told me. “I want our civilization to continue to grow and do spectacular things.” Even if A.G.I. does turn out to be dangerous, many in Silicon Valley argue, wouldn’t it be better for it to be controlled by an American company, or by the American government, rather than by the government of China or Russia, or by a rogue individual with no accountability? “If you can avoid an arms race, that’s by far the best outcome,” Ben Goldhaber, who runs an A.I.-safety group, told me. “If you’re convinced that an arms race is inevitable, it might be understandable to default to the next best option, which is, Let’s arm the good guys before the bad guys.”

One way to do this is to move fast and break things. In 2021, a computer programmer and artist named Benjamin Hampikian was living with his mother in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Almost every day, he found himself in Twitter Spaces—live audio chat rooms on the platform—that were devoted to extravagant riffs about the potential of future technologies. “We didn’t have a name for ourselves at first,” Hampikian told me. “We were just shitposting about a hopeful future, even when everything else seemed so depressing.”"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/among-the-ai-doomsayers