HakFoo

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How can we ask “are we closer” if we don’t know what the destination is?

  LLMs might still end up being an interesting special-purpose system, perhaps with fairly broad applications, but in a direction that’s different from where true AGI ends up coming from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another OpenAI researcher quits—claims AI labs are taking a ‘very risky gamble’ with humanity amid the race toward AGI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would we know it if we saw it? Draw two eye spots on a wooden spoon amd people will anthromorphise it. I suspect we’ll have dozens of false starts and breathless announcements of AGI, but we may never get there.

  More interestingly, would we want it if we got it? How long will its creators rally to its side if we throw yottabytes of data at our civilization-scale problems and the mavhine comes back with “build trains and eat the rich instead of cows?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French Collection Society Wants A Tax On Generative AI, Payable To Collection Societies⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s sickening is that in some sense, this could be a way to solve a lot of legal hassles in one fell swoop. They get a predictable rate card, and then there’s a clearly defined legal window for generative-AI products, saving decades of fights in the courts.

  But it won’t ever be that. The rights industry will never be satisfied, and it will just be the foot in the door to ever higher fees and restrictions. This is exactly the same fiasco as blank-media levies: they never fully evolved into a full “you paid once” sanction for free copying, so all it did was become a tax for a specific private beneficiary.