The word prediction software can’t think and can’t reason. Maybe they should fix the bugs in their software before trying to raise money to make it bigger?

LLM’s can’t be fixed as such. The hallucinations won’t stop, because the tech is not AI. It can do a lot of things, like create secret social scores on us based on everything we do to be used secretly against us under half baked metrics and dishonest implementation of those metrics to punish the enemies of the authorities.

At this point, the human extinction is an enthusiastically advertised feature and not a bug.

Republicans: “wait a second, they’re trying to beat us to the punch!”

To be fair Anthropic is just a subgroup of the “Republicans” group.

That’s generous to Republicans; Anthropic et al have their hands so far up conservative asses they can all smell their own shit from the inside.

The most bizarre part is that it’s false advertising that investors and enthusiasts eat up.

They are pulling back because their hype about extinction didn’t pan out and they need the excuse. No, it’s for the good of humanity, not that the tech doesn’t work as hyped. Because these ceo’s and politicians definitely give a fuck about human extinction. /s

More doomerism marketing to make it seem like LLMs will become AGI (they won’t), it’s nothing more.

They are doing it for years already, every month or two.

Yeah this is more marketing hype bullshit. “Such power. Much badass. Buy our stuff.”

It is part of the grift. Anthropic and OpenAI want to go public and a huge part of their cash burn is compute expense for training new models. (In public filings they claim they are profitable … if you look at their numbers that’s only if you remove their biggest expense which is model training) At the same time they are seeing fewer gains with new frontier models. Some are also claiming the new models aren’t as good as the ones from a year ago and you are loosing your market advantage with frontier models?

What do you do if your largest expense is generating fewer gains and you want to go public? Get the government to regulate it and build a regulatory mote around your industry and freeze your advantage over your competitors while you have it. Cut that expense and go public as a profitable company!

At this point I only want to see regulations well after the AI bubble pops. Don’t take any government stakes in these AI companies as Bernie has argued for (I agree with his stances on most economic matters but he’s off base with this). Let these AI companies burn in the free market they advocate for soo much.

Wait, they can cover running costs now?

Yes, by shoveling investor cash into the generators powering their data centers.

Running trained LLMs has, more or less, always been profitable. Inference can only run on one GPU efficiently, you know the size of the model, you know how long it takes… etc.

Inference is approximately as expensive and environment destroying as Call of Duty, which don’t get me wrong, is a waste of humanity for sure.

Model training however…

Spot on. Regulatory capture is not usually this transparent.

They also captured the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow them to run mini nuclear reactors without any of those pesky safety rules getting in the way.

I wish the press would get into the habit of interpreting ‘rogue agent’ as ‘we can’t sandbox our potential malware for toffee’.

The press is business, whatever gets the clicks.

It is so bizarre to me that the idea of AI being something that will end the human race is now an integral part of these guy’s marketing strategies.

As a human myself, I wouldn’t wanna invest in something that’s meant to destroy humans but to each their own.

Literally, their pitches have amounted to, “We’re going to create massive unemployment” and “we’re going to kill everyone.” And they’re absolutely shocked that the public opinion is against them?

Yet you still get hoards of dick suckers sucking that corporate dick. We deserve whatever we get.

America had to build the (atom) bomb to “beat the Russians to it”. Then the h-bomb, then the ICBM. Every time it was “we, the good guys need this first to save the world”.

Except, even ignoring the “good guys” part, its always easier to copy and steal than build something new from scratch. In every case, America just ended up handing the tech to Russia. You dont slow down tech by inventing it first.

I heard an interview recently with Emile Torres about this. And he didn’t make this any less stupid, but he did a great job helping to explain the deranged pathologies of the people behind these.

When you have the power to make decisions at a global scale, your goals and fears are radically different from those of people who only have the ability to make choices that impact their household or family or neighborhood.

These people have a fantasy of being not just A “great man of history” but THE greatest, most important, most monumental figure to have ever lived in the whole universe. And in their head, if this technology either allows humans to make a superior species that replaces us and goes on to conquer the whole galaxy or just eradicates all the life on the only habitable planet we know of… well what a legacy, you know? There’s no bigger tombstone that says ‘I MATTERED!’

And that’s what they crave. They’re basically sick, poisoned with toxic levels of power and ego.

But it’s funny when you put all of them in a single room. It’s like a nuthouse.

Uhh, no, I am the god here

I wonder whether if it is marketing or paving the way to “LLMs must only be provided by big tech because it is very dangerous”. I wouldn’t be surprised if in a decade or so they lobby for integrated hardware surveillance that detects “illegal LLMs”

I think they’re just trying to make LLMs sound more powerful and cool than they are. Sort of a last desperate attempt to sell it to you.

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You know, nobody is forcing these people to do all of this. Nobody is holding them hostage and telling them to be the worst person that ever lived. At any point, they could just stop to do whatever they try to do.

But no, they decided this is the way our society and civilization has to be run. And we still stand by and watch in disgust.

There is a train race. Just like car racers, you have train racers putting coal in the engine, pushing the machine forward the finish line.

At one point, a few racers are saying that they are moving at incredible speed and everything is “so hot”.

As any train, you own the speed, not the track! At one point, a racer might say that the current speed is too fast if a sharp curve is coming, but that he cannot stop putting coal in the engine because slowing down might cost him the race…

That’s what is happening.

N.B. I don’t agree with AI LLM and all that, I am trying to explain as best as I could.

See the Skeleton sport too…

At the start yes.

Now they have investors who are hounding them and could sue them for breach of fiduciary duty if they don’t do enough.

Nobody is forcing these investors either, and I bet most of them will lose money. Which I don’t care about, but I would still hope that they would just fuck off.

Does that mean we can charge the investors with attempted mass murder?

Whomever is left can try.

Makes me wonder, if all this rucus about LLMs’ threats to humanity is warming up to lobbying for making usage of open LLM models illegal in future so that big tech can monopolize on it.

that a/o building narrative for their eventual publically funded bailout

Well most humans are a complete waste of the species to be honest. It would be good to have some change.

That’s not true. Conservatives are not “most humans”.

Investors are so brave! It’s a risk they’re willing to take.

Quick reminder: this is all possible because conservatives make it impossible to stop. Conservatives are the foot-soldiers of the billionaires. If not for conservatives, the normal people would be able to charge billionaires with crimes and make them pay taxes.

Conservatives existing is the ONLY thing protecting billionaires. There is no way to defeat the boss until his foot-soldiers are dead.

You have to account for the ratchet/motte-and-bailey tactics of the “other side” to co-opt energy mobilized against Conservatives into… Serving corporate efforts, wars, and basically just acting to the maximum amount of conservators while preserving the image of opposition.

Conservatives don’t get in power because the opposition is doing a really good job opposing.

So the problem is opportunistic parasitism build from a culture and social structure that rewards consolidating your wealth, and suggests the ‘good people’ use their power to stopper the leaks of basic social functioning at every other level.

So, good people don’t have the power to compete in such a system, and bad people consolidate, and opportunistically cooperate much better than most cooperative progressives seem to.

None of this would be possible without the idiot cult suckling fascist propaganda, but it’s definitely a more robust problem than that.