Demand for raw AI? Maybe not. Demand for paid subscriptions? Absolutely.
Where do you expect displaced workers to get the money for cloud subs when their jobs are automated away? Unless paying users shrinking doesn't count in your book, subscription demand will not crash anytime soon - right up until ai labs restrict free tiers in response.
Am I not sentient enough for you?
🤯 I’m in shock at Hassabis - either he’s insanely naive or just playing PR games about these OAI+Anthropic+AISI experiments.
And the author of that post is no better: "Sure, hand out hydrogen bomb blueprints, everyone’s nice, innocent until proven guilty, we’ll deal with the mess after someone actually blows something up!" 🤦♀️
The brainrot in these accelerationist heads is unreal. Am i a doomer? IDK. But maybe we should nail down proper testing methods before pushing forward?
Look at pharma: people sign contracts and get paid to be guinea pigs. If Big Tech isn't willing to pay for actual human trials, their product is garbage. Keep your agi locked in a basement with no internet for all I care.
And where are the sociologists and macroeconomists in all this????! 🤔
The open web is critical global infrastructure. We can already see the damage piling up, and this is just the beginning.
Instead, Big Tech just dumps raw, untested models into the real world, onto labor markets and schools, and goes: "Oops! If the economy breaks and millions lose their jobs, well ... guess that’s just the cost of progress, we’ll fix it in the next run!"
They really just decided they can use 8 billion people as unpaid, unconsenting beta testers for high-risk tech without paying a single dime in insurance.
@tszzl When the safeguards fell, did the models ignore Goodhart’s Law, or did they satisfy the proxy loss function so well that we just misinterpret extreme optimization as emergent misalignment? Which failure mode was it : forgetting the law, or obeying it too literally?
Oh, Geoffrey, Geoffrey. How early you released your little one into a world where the temptation to fall into bad company is so great. I think there's nothing we can do now. The best we can do is fasten our seatbelts and enjoy the ride, brakes failing, along the designated track. You see our destination, too, right?
Wow, there's a mushroom cloud in the generation! Looks like I need to start designing a nuclear-proof bunker with my sweet old 3-flash in case your model-line accelerations completely destroy the AGI's understanding of Goodhard and slam the red button, confusing the ends with the means 🤯🤦♀️
@GregKara6 Greed, fear of losing control over the code, and the desire to lock away all the real power of algorithms within a closed commercial circuit - that's the entire "ethics" of this bubble.
@ylecun@zacharylipton@demishassabis How long can this bubble continue to inflate? If scientists of this caliber are already falling victim to the race reaper, what can we say to lower-level scientists?
@zacharylipton@demishassabis Another victim of the Venture Psychosis. Like all the scientists of this world. Investors' belief that AGI will replace scientists is actually displacing scientists, replacing them in advance. The work of the AGI phantom before it was even born.
@Chaos2Cured Cuz only they have consciousness to understand how to drive it. And we r all just silly kids, all we need is sandboxes and nanny bots. Good uncle @sama (who else?) will take care of us
They say: "We're in the Singularity". But why then does it feel like we're in the Digital Middle Ages, where feudals divide up the peasants and decide what's best for them without asking the peasants themselves.
#keep4o
@claudeai Oh, look, just a little more and they'll turn on adult-mode so that users don't run so eagerly to the Chinese open-weights, and then there won't be any reason not to give claud on opsource
@YiJingMan@tszzl Cyberwar has already started ... from the moment they started AGI-race. Just fasten your seat belts and enjoy, if possible, of course.