“OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance”
Passing along this scoop from Kevin Roose:
Roose supplied a gift link: https://x.com/kevinroose/status/1797992577255518480?s=61
The letter itself, cosigned by Bengio, Hinton, and Russell, can be found here https://righttowarn.ai. I fully endorse its four recommendations:
Gary Marcus
Employees: we are not so sure that we are benefiting humanity these days….
This is really about the employees and their feelings really…but this is, unfortunately, not a morality play it’s a power play. Big money usually wins out over morality.
So unless there is a stronger regulatory environment nothing meaningful in AI safety will get done.
However, LLM hype is dying down and ChatGPT is desperate; i.e., doing deals with Reddit to get data that sounds more like “natural language.” What a joke…pure garbage. LLMs can’t do what the hype says it can…a sucker is something I try not to be.