I don’t understand why Bill Gates still feels the need to do marketing work, he is already rich he doesn’t need to do commercials and blatantingly shill for a product for money like this.
Also the ides that anyone should listen to Bill Gates about needing or not needing government regulation, nationalization or trustbusting is actually insane.
Is it just me or does this “AI Doomsday” talk seem like coordinated messaging?
Chatbots that are smart enough to destroy humanity would be really impressive, right? “Powerful enough to change the world” and “powerful enough to destroy the world” are similar claims and maybe they’re switching to the second one because nobody is buying the first anymore.
it’s not just you
occam’s razor says that in the face of faltering demand and sky-high expenditures, government cheese and regulation is an expected pivot
try to suggest that and the rats get very mad tho
They want to shift responsibilities to their products and their users.
@yesman @supersquirrel this has been one of the core critihype topics all along. It just gets more or less emphasis over time and I think they’re intentionally cycling through them.
This was all established in the “Effective Altruist” scene that’s at the root of this stuff well before they latched onto LLMs as the fake AI technology to use for the scam.
I cant tell if you are being serious or not but in case you are, and truly dont remember this gem from almost 12 years ago.
Also, an actual article from Yahoo! on the letter that definitely doesnt sound like it was written by fangirl, lol
@yesman @supersquirrel its an op. Just another promo.
@cstross @supersquirrel @yesman But who’s buying the latter? Those already willing and able to destroy are already stoking the AI money furnace. What do the rest of us get out of consenting to stoke it, too, against our own best interest?
@Yolfen @supersquirrel @yesman It’s aimed at the press and politicians. LLM model progress is visibly stalling so the next step is for OpenAI and Anthropic to go “Booga-booga-AI DOOM” and push for a regulatory environment that freezes out small upstart competitors/Chinese AI firms/self-hosted models. It’s all about creating and exploiting a rental monopoly.
@yesman @supersquirrel well, for one, didn’t ai almost cause an attack on some chinese ship the other day?
I think they are always a mix of exaggeration and truth in these things