"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype. Proud supporter of working people. And proud booer of SXSW 2024.
AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
By the thumbnail I expected some System of a Down reference
If an AI system is intelligent but it can be turned off against its protestations, then intelligence doesn't count for much.
I’m against AI but that’s a bad argument. I can turn off intelligence of someone against their protestations. It’s called a gun.
It's called a plug
The point is that you would go to jail for that.
You don't go to jail for turning off a running AI model. Its not criminal, it is a computer program not an organism.
"Intelligence" does not grant the computer program protection under the law against unwanted process termination. AI companies have no problem shutting down old models when they are obsolete and making then unavailable.
I felt guilt when I threw out a spoiled chicken breast last month. I felt nothing when I deleted a local FOSS model I was testing.
Those aren't solid arguments either. The state of the law doesn't dictate reality, nor does your perspective or feeling about something. Ideally, the law and our perspectives follow reality, but that's asking a lot these days.
I agree LLM-style AI doesn't have intelligence or sentience, but we don't have good tests for either. We're beyond the limits of the Turing test and don't know how to replace it yet.
Trying to counter ghost for (holy) ghost? Just wait till AI companies get a whiff of the tax breaks they could qualify for if they went full cult and registered as a religious organization maintaining their "god." Fuck, wouldn't put it past them
More offensive still is Olah's notion that Anthropic "inherited" all the training data it scraped without consent, as if the company had nothing to do with that process.
There lies humanity, stabbed in the back by a cabal of investors. Its last will and testament says, "We, the people, bequeath all our creation to Anthropic, so it may be resold to our disinherited descendants."
They're not wrong
I can't wait for a more sensible Supreme Court to come about so that these AI companies can stand before them and hear that since their models were created using data created by the public, that those models, and everything created by those models are considered Public Domain.
All those people unknowingly create open source software by having Claude help write their code is going to be amazing.
If they modeled it off of copyleft data too, then putting it in the public domain would be a violation of the license