Technology

Any pause will have to be a global treaty

Which is why tech CEOs love to promote it. They know it'll never happen.

We know how to make “AI” more capable, but we don’t know how to make it stay aligned with human goals.

"Alignment" is almost entirely a myth cooked up by AI companies who want to make their word generators sound scarier than they are. There's no such thing: the next word generator generates next word. It's unpredictable because it's built that way. "Hallucination" and "going rogue", all poor terms and pathetic attempts to fearmonger and humanize, are identical functions to "working" and "aligning".

The technology... isn’t going anywhere

The "it's just inevitable" cliche rears its ugly head again.

We’re not in an arms race. That’s part of the bullshit Anthropic and like want you to believe. LLMs are not nukes. LLMs are a fad with most benefits having been to coders, presuming they were already good coders.

25 years from now we’re either going to still be in this “arms race,” or we’ll have better clarity on how the billionaire class misled us all.

Stopping development will do us more good than the harm of perusing a perpetual wealth transfer in the name of a fake arms race.

Arms race

Woah, we're talking LLMs here, this is not a secret military technology. And China is very open about the developments made there - you can freely study and reverse engineer plenty of Chinese models, and see all the weights out in the open.

This whole race about them is, in my opinion, nothing but trying to pump the bubble even faster, churning the economy in the process and playing on gullible or self-interested politicians.

It's beyond "an arms race." AI has become a commodity that's everywhere and it's being used and developed by zillions of completely different groups all over the world with wildly varying use cases and completely different goals.

At this point, trying to ban it would be like trying to ban dandelions from growing.

Order Nvidia and AMD to stop selling AI GPUs or whatever they're called.

It's not a threat, it's a plea.

I doubt he can. Too many other Senators getting checks from the Chatbot labs.

I mean if you didn't already know Bernie isn't a democrat.

How will they be able to handle the onslaught of a strongly worded letter?

He cant, but he wants to. Which is important.

We should never take something away from an action with good intentions, just because others want to stop him.

Thats not how we get the change in the end. Because someday it might succeed.

Why is he even bothering to do his job if he's struggling to do his job? He should just be shitty and useless like the others! /S

At this point US Senat actions (especially those by Democrats) even seem less effective than European serious concern.

Acctually its the same $20 being passed around they have just really improved the speed and efficiency of passing it on.