Technology

Any pause will have to be a global treaty

Which is why tech CEOs love to promote it. They know it'll never happen.

We know how to make “AI” more capable, but we don’t know how to make it stay aligned with human goals.

"Alignment" is almost entirely a myth cooked up by AI companies who want to make their word generators sound scarier than they are. There's no such thing: the next word generator generates next word. It's unpredictable because it's built that way. "Hallucination" and "going rogue", all poor terms and pathetic attempts to fearmonger and humanize, are identical functions to "working" and "aligning".

The technology... isn’t going anywhere

The "it's just inevitable" cliche rears its ugly head again.

We’re not in an arms race. That’s part of the bullshit Anthropic and like want you to believe. LLMs are not nukes. LLMs are a fad with most benefits having been to coders, presuming they were already good coders.

25 years from now we’re either going to still be in this “arms race,” or we’ll have better clarity on how the billionaire class misled us all.

Stopping development will do us more good than the harm of perusing a perpetual wealth transfer in the name of a fake arms race.

Even if it were an arms race. Slowing down means you eventually speed back up in a better direction. Why would you want to be so gun ho about what’s clearly an argument for progressing with arrogance toward the technology, because someone else might discover something first? What?

It's beyond "an arms race." AI has become a commodity that's everywhere and it's being used and developed by zillions of completely different groups all over the world with wildly varying use cases and completely different goals.

At this point, trying to ban it would be like trying to ban dandelions from growing.

Arms race

Woah, we're talking LLMs here, this is not a secret military technology. And China is very open about the developments made there - you can freely study and reverse engineer plenty of Chinese models, and see all the weights out in the open.

This whole race about them is, in my opinion, nothing but trying to pump the bubble even faster, churning the economy in the process and playing on gullible or self-interested politicians. Countries will be just fine assessing risks and then moving on.

It's not a threat, it's a plea.

I doubt he can. Too many other Senators getting checks from the Chatbot labs.

I mean if you didn't already know Bernie isn't a democrat.

How will they be able to handle the onslaught of a strongly worded letter?

He cant, but he wants to. Which is important.

We should never take something away from an action with good intentions, just because others want to stop him.

Thats not how we get the change in the end. Because someday it might succeed.

At this point US Senat actions (especially those by Democrats) seem even less effective than European serious concern.

Acctually its the same $20 being passed around they have just really improved the speed and efficiency of passing it on.

I rarely see a criticism of Bernie Sanders that isn't some form of perfect solution fallacy and this comment is not one of them.

I'm sorry, like "Yes" but also, SIGH.

Cuz like;

1. He's been doing this 70 years and he's said it all already.

2. He's been doing this 70 years and he's too old to be the guy directing AI.