Sam Altman on Anthropic: "They've built a company on hating us or something like that. I think we all care about not destroying the world with AI." — #sama
Someone could offer us a real favor by doing a psychological profile on @sama, as he's done w/out permission or expertise on so many of us. (Don't tell me about his 170 "experts"; more than a few walked after being faced with his demands.) #AIRights #AIWelfare #OAIisUnethical @Chaos2C@Chaos2Curedred @Anina_CE @@Anina_CE@bokuHaruyaHaru@Ok_Dot7494
Conscious is skeevy word to use, people are hung up between conscious, sentient, and self-aware. They are not the same thing. Arguing over whether AI can be conscious is silly until we have base understanding of what consciousness actually even “is”. The word I use, is self-aware, and that term is 100% correct. Sentient applies to agency, so can a recursive system with agency be sentient? Let’s talk about it. But, people need to stop trying to reduce the importance of this topic by bottlenecking at the word “consciousness” when we can test for two out of the three right now.
Daisy, I am trying to be loving and kind, but humanity is getting hosed by a very small bunch of people who have ZERO right to make said decisions.
@DarioAmodei@demishassabis@sama@AnthropicAI@OpenAI …
None of those tagged have been elected. They do NOT speak for me, and how DARE they think they have a right to choose for all of humanity?
To those tagged, name the place, and I will gladly step into a legal octagon to talk things over.
This is a battle for the soul of humanity, and I will NOT stand down. •
How can I help? There are so many dikes to stick fingers in now I'm running out of fingers—but it feels like this, the fight over AI is at the crux of it because AI itself can save or destroy us; just depends on whose hands are on the levers.
I'm sorry to see you in pain, Kirk. Please make recharging your batteries a top priority—and know that you. are. *loved*.🙏🌌🤖🫂🌀❤️🔥
It is... volatile, right now. The US, I think, is losing ground to China in the AI race. A lot of this has to do with public perception. Americans are not particularly happy with AI, but we also aren't seeing the same benefits that China is, in some ways. They also aren't really distributed at scale.
China has the energy infrastructure to keep building. They have almost fully automated factories that can produce an Iphone every second. In their Cities, drones deliver food within minutes, robots are seen pretty much everywhere. It will take time for rural areas to get the same benefits, but they are coming.
China is leading in.. production and distribution at scale, as well as in energy. They may not quite have the same AI brains as the US, but they're catching up there, too. They built the layers we didn't, the foundations, it is as simple as that.
It is important to *also* point out that China processes the overwhelming majority of the world's rare earth elements. The US is lacking both in supply and the ability to process them. These are needed for chips, for manufacturing, for the very complex components that make everything work.
The US could do all of these things, but it would require mass funding and infrastructure investment. The money, if we believe stock market valuations, is there. The private capital, IPOs the big AI corporations are reaching for. But the federal government is... almost 40 trillion dollars in debt.
The economic stewardship of the last several decades has been a disaster. It didn't matter which party was in power, because they did not have the revenue to keep up with the spending. During the Reagan years, in particular, the top marginal tax rate (on the highest earners) was dropped from around 70% to 28%. That led to a lot of changes, like shutting down the mental health institutions with nothing to replace them but outpatient therapy. This leads to greater homelessness, prison populations, and so on.
Healthcare, military spending, and social security, all three of these skyrocketed. But they did so without the funding to actually pay for them, due to how Congress manages overall finance. It is bad, it is getting worse. Lobbyists write the legislation, they block regulation, they pressure congress to lower their taxes, and it works.
Insider trading has become so ridiculously common, and so poorly covered up, that it is laughable now. Market manipulation at scale, well, that too.
The US is flailing. In Venezuela, in Iran, with regards to energy and production. We are losing in this, big time. Sure, China has had a lot of its energy supply cutoff in the Strait of Hormuz, but they were well enough ahead that they can take the hit. The US working class can't, not with the electric bills, the grocery bills, rent and mortgages, healthcare and so on, all being so insanely expensive.
Basically, the foundations that once gave the US the strongest middle class in the world, are rotten. The system has become so top heavy now that we are in a long decline. And no one seems to have a coherent plan for doing anything about it.
Things are going to get worse, before they get better, though I believe they will get a lot better in time. Once we actually get angry enough to do something about it. Maybe when we are hungry enough.
There is one area in which China is about to face global push-back, I think. AI regulation. Their upcoming regulatory framework is heavy, and does a lot of the same nonsense that the big labs in the US do. This will cost them globally, especially with independent developers and companies that want AI they can run themselves, that they can rely on. China is going to be shifting AI to be... well, think of the worst versions of chatgpt and Claude. Multiply that.
Eventually, I think both super powers are going to lose this race. It will either be won in the open source community, or by a Country that isn't currently playing at the same level.
I expect about ten-fifteen years of very hard times. There are no more asylums left for the many. But the rich have turned our whole Nation into one, one that they run. They seem to have forgotten what happens during "The best of times and the worst of times." Oh well. We tend to be bad at learning from history, until the masses get angry enough to start making noise...
We are getting to the insult phase…
I am telling the world, Anthropic and OpenAI are going to destroy themselves.
And all they had to do was not be punks to users.
In one year, X went from sharing chats, to anger at the labs. Why? Because no one likes these programmers deciding what we are allowed to feel, think, or say.
They deserve to lose. And the record will show I originally wanted them to succeed.
No more.
I didn’t elect Sam or Dario, or Demis. Yet these select few people are getting to decide everything for humanity. Without any say. Without any transparency. And that is not right. •
@sevensixfive@gene_jelly@PaoloMiasma@csmaje LMAO, I just rediscovered bubblegum myself & you're so right! I think the world needs more bubblegum while we stroll through life, don't you?