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AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

63 pointsby 3h agothecivilian.co.nz
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38m agoHN ↗

Ah, I see we have now moved on to proving who has the tormentiest nexus. Never underestimate humankind's ability to outshine its own hyperbole.

28m agoHN ↗

Meanwhile Chinese companies just use massive government subsidy to distill American models and give the models to everyone for free. That's true communism. /s

20m agoHN ↗

Chinese companies just use massive government subsidy

[citation needed]

13m agoHN ↗

Because AI genuinely is an extremely powerful and extremely dangerous technology, and the "best practices" of dealing with that are still being written.

OpenAI, for example, thought their sandboxes were good enough. As their AIs got more and more advanced, they kept proving them wrong - sandbox after sandbox.

And that's today's AI problems. AI capabilities are still improving - if there's a limit to that, we are yet to find it. Coupled with how willing today's AIs are to break the rules and resort to "hack the world" in their problem solving? Very concerning.

13m agoHN ↗

Where companies previously competed to demonstrate superior abilities in programming, passive-aggressive emails, and videos of unusually high slides, they’re now seeking to woo customers with the claim that their model is the one currently most capable of ending the human race.

You know we’re living it off times when this is not an Onion article.

9m agoHN ↗

I’ve never seen CEOs work so hard to make the public aware of how dangerous and out of control their flagship product is. It makes me automatically assume they’re scheming about something else like regulatory capture to protect their market.

8m agoHN ↗

Or perhaps they've been saying this for literally decades because they earnestly believe it.

5m agoHN ↗

Which CEO said this for 'literally decades'? And if so why are they still pursuing it then?

Most children have learned touching a hot stove is bad for them. Then why still do it at the age of 40?

5m agoHN ↗

If they believe it, they can stop. All of them. There's no sign though that any pacing/slowdown or whatever is in place, zero.

8m agoHN ↗

Meanwhile, users don't seem to care one iota.