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Are AI CEOs shaping the narrative to remain in control?

According to AI expert, reporter and author @_KarenHao:

"Such a core part of the mythology they create around the AI industry includes the belief that it could go very badly. It goes hand in hand - they need that part of the myth in order to then say 'and that's why we need to be in control of the technology, because that's the only way it's going to go really, really well.'

Altman has said publicly: 'Worst case lights out for everyone, but best case we cure cancer, we solve climate change, and there's abundance.' And Dario Amodei, same kind of rhetoric: 'Worst case catastrophic or existential harm for humanity, best case mass human flourishing.'

So this is like two sides of the same coin. They have to use both of these narratives in order to continue justifying an extremely anti-democratic approach to AI development, where there should not be broad participation in developing this technology. They must be the ones controlling it at every step of the way."

Source: The Diary Of A CEO Podcast

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COVID-19 was an engineered Chinese bioweapon according to @PalmerLuckey, the billionaire founder of Oculus and Anduril Industries.

"People worry about AI-powered machines wiping out humanity. And I'm not saying that's impossible, but it's so far down the list compared to biological and chemical weapons - particularly tailored biological weapons that can target specific races or ethnic groups, or built by people who think they're targeting specific races or ethnic groups. Whether they succeed or fail, what they're building is extremely dangerous.

China in particular has been investing heavily in gain-of-function research and building extremely dangerous tools. I don't think they intentionally released COVID-19, but at this point it seems almost a certainty that it was effectively an engineered Chinese bioweapon."

Source: New York Post Interview

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The economy will 10X in the next 10 years according to @elonmusk!

"I'd say the economy is 10 times its current size in 10 years...

10X in roughly 10 years I feel is actually a fairly comfortable prediction.

If there's like World War III or something, that could put a kink in those plans or those expectations. But in the absence of WWIII, if current trends continue, I would say the economy 10Xs in 10 years."

Clip taken from a talk at Abundance360 by @PeterDiamandis

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@carlpaoli @adcock_brett For sure. If they care about the problem you’re solving before the hire then they are mission aligned and want to solve it regardless of compensation and many other factors

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What do billionaires optimise for when hiring?

@adcock_brett founder of Figure AI discussed what he looks for in a hire on the WTF Online Podcast:

"I think the conventional wisdom is to go out and hire somebody really experienced, that makes you feel really good, from a really good background, at a successful company. And I found that playbook is just complete crap. Throw that right out the door.

Even now, Figure has gotten to a point where we have these big shots knocking on our door wanting to come work here, from big companies and wherever else. But it's just not the right approach.

If you look at every generational company, it's not like they went out and picked the VP here and the VP here and the VP here and put it together. It's like the opposite of what Meta is doing right now. Look at Meta's superintelligence lab. It's like putting 15 Tom Bradys together and making that work. It's just immediately going to collapse. It's not going to work.

My view is you just need to find people that really care. That's the core axiom of what I look for in talent."

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@sama How far from AGI do you think you actually are?

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"Not going to get AGI for 300 years. That's an exact number."

Rodney Brooks, cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, says the entire AGI hype is just a marketing ploy.

"The reason we talk about AGI now is a group of researchers decided to differentiate themselves and claim they were doing general intelligence, but that's what everyone thought they were doing. So it's a marketing ploy."

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"Not going to get AGI for 300 years. That's an exact number."

Rodney Brooks, cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, says the entire AGI hype is just a marketing ploy.

"The reason we talk about AGI now is a group of researchers decided to differentiate themselves and claim they were doing general intelligence, but that's what everyone thought they were doing. So it's a marketing ploy."