I don't understand why people are just mad about OpenAI for their pioneering work towards AGI as if they are the only one who has skin in this game. OpenAI, Google, NVidia, MS, Meta, almost all the AI researchers who publish meaningful work in top literatures, are pushing the boundaries today and has their fair share of responsibility. They are all in it for something, money, power, control, fame, curiosity, academic recognition, whatever the incentives are. At this rate, it's already a race to the bottom and I don't believe the first place AGI was born would be able to kill it off. AGI is like nukes, it's so powerful that nobody will take the risks seriously until they have it, and nobody is going to stop pursuing it because everyone else is chasing it. If OpenAI slows down, Google will take the lead. If the US slows down, China will take the lead. That's basically the doomed future we are facing in reality.
_heimdall|1 year ago
Its amazing to me that Oppenheimer became such a box office hit around the same time all the AI / AGI hype really built. There are plenty of parallels between the Manhattan Project, and nuclear weapons in general, and real AI.
Heck, just watch the last 5 minutes of Oppenheimer and tell me there's no lesson there to be learned before going right back to work the next day trying to build artificial general intelligence just because we can.
llamaimperative|1 year ago
m3kw9|1 year ago