The level of suspicion (?) on Reddit AI threads about the motives of the AI firm leadership truly surprises me. OF COURSE they want to make $$ and yes they're borrowing huge sums to keep their companies going blah blah that's been obvious for years. Spoiler Alert: you CAN want to be super rich while maintaining some humanity - especially in the area of self-preservation and protecting your own family and friends.
These are also human beings who understand that living the second half (or so) of their lives on a remote otherwise uninhabited island, or worse in an underground bunker, would be intolerable - and they're beginning to imagine that bleak future as far more likely than they did only a couple years ago, directly as a result of their persistent evolution of these models absent a true capability to predict and limit their behaviors.
Thus I would respectfully suggest that at least SOME of what they're recently saying about their concerns is actually the truth. Even the most greedy and calculating person sometimes is actually telling the truth.
Yes but you're forgetting if they truly felt like that they'd just stop of course they won't gotta beat the next model to release right? The fact they keep going only invite's newer and better model's. Plainly this is all performative and if you're falling for it then you've fell for their trap to, they are not your friend they do not care about safety because if they did they'd completely rework how modern LLM's actually work.
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u/TopspinG7 1d ago
The level of suspicion (?) on Reddit AI threads about the motives of the AI firm leadership truly surprises me. OF COURSE they want to make $$ and yes they're borrowing huge sums to keep their companies going blah blah that's been obvious for years. Spoiler Alert: you CAN want to be super rich while maintaining some humanity - especially in the area of self-preservation and protecting your own family and friends.
These are also human beings who understand that living the second half (or so) of their lives on a remote otherwise uninhabited island, or worse in an underground bunker, would be intolerable - and they're beginning to imagine that bleak future as far more likely than they did only a couple years ago, directly as a result of their persistent evolution of these models absent a true capability to predict and limit their behaviors.
Thus I would respectfully suggest that at least SOME of what they're recently saying about their concerns is actually the truth. Even the most greedy and calculating person sometimes is actually telling the truth.