I find it very hard to understand the things these AI CEO's say.
He will probably get up there and say his companies products will destroy every citizen of their countries.
howunfortunate 24 minutes ago [-]
People will say it's marketing but I find Occam's Razor highly favors the theory "they are true believers in AGI/ASI"
This seems especially true for Anthropic employees.
moshun 11 minutes ago [-]
Wouldn’t Occam’s razor say that the people speaking are highly motivated to continue being paid? Relying on their fear of future outcomes seems to be misplaced to judge the honesty of their statements.
howunfortunate 3 minutes ago [-]
> continue being paid
What I mean by Occam's Razor:
There are many assumptions that need to be true to link "they say they're terrified of AI" to "they get paid more / longer", in both their own minds and everyone else's. It's a bit of 4D chess that could go their way, but also could go 100 different ways.
In contrast, linking "they say it" to "they believe it" is simple.
laxd 55 minutes ago [-]
Shocking publicity is good publicity. And "my product is so potent it will probably destroy you." I think I´ve heard it from drug dealers as well.
kelseyfrog 46 minutes ago [-]
Smells of, "You can't handle my potions. They're too strong for you."[1]
How's AI doing in Russia with all the sanctions and whatnot?
ACCount39 42 minutes ago [-]
The AI industry in Russia is not doing well. Domestic AI models exist, but they aren't exactly high performers, and many of them are based on the open weight Chinese models - so there is very little reason to use them. IT power users run Western or Chinese models, often through proxies, VPNs or resellers.
AI is being adopted and used, but if there was ever a chance of Russia being an AI power, it died in 2022.
A few formerly-Russian IT companies had their "rainy day" HQs overseas, and leveraged them to slip the noose and leave Russia - brain draining what AI expertise was available in the country. See: Yandex -> Nebius.
They have access to all the same open models that the rest of the world does, so just fine I would think.
dgellow 53 minutes ago [-]
They also access American models via proxies. Same as China
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edoceo 1 hours ago [-]
If governments regulate AI and make it slow down, does that let one get out of data center contracts?
dgellow 50 minutes ago [-]
If OpenAI voids its spending commitment, the bubble has to pop. I know the market is irrational, but that would be the clearest top signal ever
bogzz 60 minutes ago [-]
The LARP proceeds unabated.
wg0 1 hours ago [-]
The private equity debt time bomb is here. Then there is the bond market.
And then guaranteed bust of AI bubble. 2000 billion dollars for a single company? That too when bottom of the boat has been drilled by open weight Chinese models that are cheaper and good enough but can even be deployed locally?
In face of all that - that kind of return is not realistic.
However - good gimmick scaring UN asking for a ban on Chinese models perhaps.
tracerbulletx 1 hours ago [-]
The UN is not a body that would be involved in banning models from a specific country, and even if they were China is one of 5 members with permanent veto power.
api 50 minutes ago [-]
Only way to justify those valuation is if they can achieve regulatory capture and outlaw competitors and open models.
Expect the fear mongering to escalate to a fever pitch.
The UN has no authority to ban anything but it's a good platform.
osiris970 38 minutes ago [-]
Are we still pretending models aren't cyber capable, and will be an immense force for hacking? I expected this shit on reddit not here.
You don't have to like Sam, and still not do this bullshit
bogzz 34 minutes ago [-]
The fearmongering is based in the notion that the LessWrong fanfic is coming true as we speak, not LLMs being used as tools for hacking.
arctic-true 18 minutes ago [-]
Unfortunately focusing on the fanfic prevents everyone from focusing on the genuinely world-altering threat of cybersecurity becoming completely impossible for a while. But perhaps that’s the point, because you can be held liable for that, but not for the end of the world as there wouldn’t be any courts afterward.
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newsclues 26 minutes ago [-]
hope he wear two collared shirts.
daveguy 12 minutes ago [-]
Please tell me they are going to have independent computer scientists and security experts to ask questions that expose the doomerism/"rationalist" LessWrong bullshit. Please don't just let him spew talking points designed to make a deflating bubble look like a good thing.
nrmitchi 5 minutes ago [-]
Doubtful. Almost definitely going to be taking direction from "business" people with misaligned and ulterior motives, rather than asking questions of people with long careers, research, and history in the field.
Which is just... highly unfortunate.
ahartmetz 2 hours ago [-]
A great marketing opportunity for Grifty McGriftface.
verdverm 1 hours ago [-]
A friend him called Uncle Sam Alternative-man, thought it was accurate and clever
cpcabbge 44 minutes ago [-]
Why these bug eyed salamanders have any say at all for any of this is beyond me. He's a tech ceo who wants to make money, nothing more.
nba456_ 35 minutes ago [-]
I thought you meant the UN at first and was about to agree. They should have no say about US tech.
dyauspitr 33 minutes ago [-]
He’s rich, in charge of a pretty significant company that has made history and continues to do so.
hfc56 34 minutes ago [-]
Who do you think designed central banks?
Bankers or politicians or the plebs?
These kind of meetings are to create common vocabulary/seed common frameworks across the world for problems all govts are seeing or expecting on the horizon.
jstummbillig 24 minutes ago [-]
HN would be better if it did not produce disparaging comments in every thread that has Sam Altman on it.
I get it. We dislike Sam. I got it 3? 4? years ago. Would be nice and more interesting if we could see past that at some point, given that he is a fairly important figure, doing important things, that would be cool to share interesting thoughts about.
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He will probably get up there and say his companies products will destroy every citizen of their countries.
This seems especially true for Anthropic employees.
What I mean by Occam's Razor:
There are many assumptions that need to be true to link "they say they're terrified of AI" to "they get paid more / longer", in both their own minds and everyone else's. It's a bit of 4D chess that could go their way, but also could go 100 different ways.
In contrast, linking "they say it" to "they believe it" is simple.
1. https://genius.com/Justin-kuritzkes-potion-seller-annotated
That's the whole presentation, saved you a couple of insufferable hours
(I put "technology" in quotes because it is closer to alchemy.)
AI is being adopted and used, but if there was ever a chance of Russia being an AI power, it died in 2022.
A few formerly-Russian IT companies had their "rainy day" HQs overseas, and leveraged them to slip the noose and leave Russia - brain draining what AI expertise was available in the country. See: Yandex -> Nebius.
And then guaranteed bust of AI bubble. 2000 billion dollars for a single company? That too when bottom of the boat has been drilled by open weight Chinese models that are cheaper and good enough but can even be deployed locally?
In face of all that - that kind of return is not realistic.
However - good gimmick scaring UN asking for a ban on Chinese models perhaps.
Expect the fear mongering to escalate to a fever pitch.
The UN has no authority to ban anything but it's a good platform.
Which is just... highly unfortunate.
Bankers or politicians or the plebs?
These kind of meetings are to create common vocabulary/seed common frameworks across the world for problems all govts are seeing or expecting on the horizon.
I get it. We dislike Sam. I got it 3? 4? years ago. Would be nice and more interesting if we could see past that at some point, given that he is a fairly important figure, doing important things, that would be cool to share interesting thoughts about.