- Big Tech is lying about some AI risks to shut down competition, a Google Brain cofounder has said.
- Andrew Ng told The Australian Financial Review that tech leaders hoped to trigger strict regulation.
- Some large tech companies didn’t want to compete with open source, he added.
I’ve read enough scifi to know that AI is a credible risk that we shouldn’t be too laissez-faire with…
The “fi” is for fiction, you know.
Obviously. But it’s only fiction until it isn’t.
No, it means some of it is nonsense, some of it is eerily accurate, and most of it is in between.
Sci-fi has not been very accurate with AI… At all. Turns out, it’s naturally creative and empathetic, but struggles with math and precision
Dude, this kind of AI is in it’s infancy. Give it a few years. You act like you’ve never come across a nascent technology before.
Besides, it struggles with math? Pff, the base models, sure, but have you tried GPT4 with Code Interpreter? These kinds of problems are easily solved.
And my grandmother doesn’t have wheels until she does.
…sure. But the chances your grandmother will suddenly sprout wheels are close to zero. The possibility of us all getting buttfucked by some AI with a god complex (other scenarios are available) is very real.
Have you ever talked to generative AI? They’re nothing but glorified chatbots with access to a huge dataset to pull from. They don’t think, they’re not even intelligent, let alone sentient. They don’t even learn on their own without help or guidance.
I mostly agree, but just five years ago, we had nothing as sophistacted as these LLMs. They really are useful in many areas of work. I use them constantly.
Just try and imagine what a few more years of work on these systems could bring.