Mostafa Ayoub

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

men will literally build an AI self instead of going to therapy

[High Yield Harry @HighyieldHarry]

Sam Altman right now

[Sam Altman @sama]

GPTs can save a lot of effort:

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Altman, Hassabis, and Amodei are the ones doing massive corporate lobbying at the moment.
They are the ones who are attempting to perform a regulatory capture of the AI industry.
You, Geoff, and Yoshua are giving ammunition to those who are lobbying for a ban on open AI R&D.

If your fear-mongering campaigns succeed, they will *inevitably* result in what you and I would identify as a catastrophe: a small number of companies will control AI.

The vast majority of our academic colleagues are massively in favor of open AI R&D. Very few believe in the doomsday scenarios you have promoted.
You, Yoshua, Geoff, and Stuart are the singular-but-vocal exceptions.

like many, I very much support open AI platforms because I believe in a combination of forces: people's creativity, democracy, market forces, and product regulations.
I also know that producing AI systems that are safe and under our control is possible. I've made concrete proposals to that effect.
This will all drive people to do the Right Thing.

You write as if AI is just happening, as if it were some natural phenomenon beyond our control.
But it's not. It's making progress because of individual people that you and I know. We, and they, have agency in building the Right Things.
Asking for regulation of R&D (as opposed to product deployment) implicitly assumes that these people and the organization they work for are incompetent, reckless, self-destructive, or evil. They are not.

I have made lots of arguments that the doomsday scenarios you are so afraid of are preposterous. I'm not going to repeat them here. But the main point is that if powerful AI systems are driven by objectives (which include guardrails) they will be safe and controllable because *e* set those guardrails and objectives.
(Current Auto-Regressive LLMs are not driven by objectives, so let's not extrapolate from their current weaknesses).

Now about open source: your campaign is going to have the exact opposite effect of what you seek.
In a future where AI systems are poised to constitute the repository of all human knowledge and culture, we *need* the platforms to be open source and freely available so that everyone can contribute to them.
Openness is the only way to make AI platforms reflect the entirety of human knowledge and culture.
This requires that contributions to those platforms be crowd-sourced, a bit like Wikipedia.
That won't work unless the platforms are open.

The alternative, which will *inevitably* happen if open source AI is regulated out of existence, is that a small number of companies from the West Coast of the US and China will control AI platform and hence control people's entire digital diet.
What does that mean for democracy?
What does that mean for cultural diversity?

*THIS* is what keeps me up at night.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

Vinegar from the corner shop to treat pseuodomonas bacterial wound infections. Its come to that.

[Edward @EdwardGe]

gave my mom access to my ChatGPT account and found out she’s making new chats for every single prompt & has created over 300 “new chats” in the past week alone

she’s not even asking it questions she’s just looking stuff up on it like google

[Martin Shkreli (e/acc) @wagieeacc]

aight imma need you to see my man flacco on the 5th floor. if you can't get to the 5th floor, say you're muslim and you want to attend "jumah". if that dont work, go to medical like 5 times and ask about flacco. tall flacco from the bronx. there are 50 flaccos.

next, when you approach flacco you must make a bird noise. do not make direct eye contact and make sure it is a cooing type of bird, not a chirping type of bird, but it shouldnt be 100% coo.

if he doesnt acknowledge you, quickly remove yourself. if he nods his head up slowly, you may say "hunnit" send you. i, martin shkreli, am "hunnit". that is a long story you need not concern yourself with at this stage.

flacco will give you the rest of what you need to know.

[andi (twocents.com) @Nexuist]

my mom just showed me a LinkedIn screenshot of Mira Murati (CTO of OpenAI) and said "she's Albanian, you should talk to her about your AI startup, maybe she can help you out"

[JJ @JosephJacks_]

“Open Source always wins because no one has a monopoly on the best ideas” 🔥👌🏼

[Alex Reibman 🖇️ @AlexReibman]

Software engineers: rest easy.
GPT-4 isn't ready to replace you

[🌴ᴛʜᴇᴀʀᴛᴏꜰᴡᴀʀ🌴 @TheArtOfWar6]

This is crazy they all sat down to discuss the guy that beat them😭

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Spelling Bee Contestant Asks The Definition of “Woman”

[COPA90 @Copa90]

🎵 Freed From Desire has gone global
https://t.co/7RT0DRwjdv

[Russell Crowe @russellcrowe]

Taking the kids to see my old office

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The best summary of my problem with modern finance. (BTW that was before weightlifting).

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Human tendency to conform, especially when in large groups, is terrifying. Propaganda machines leverage this throughout human history.

The way out is to think freely, detached from the divisive narratives of the day that masquerade as universal truths.

This often feels lonely.

[Kapernikov @kapernikov]

#YOLOv3, embedded devices with neural network accelerator (kpu), direct memory access, undocumented features.Come on and find out how we (OK, Louis) squeezed 30 frames per second out of a #Kendryte #K210. #deeplearning

Full article: https://t.co/4xY40HhzAF

[جمعية المودعين اللبنانيين @Lebdepositors]

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