Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks

• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is just them sticking to their principles.

  Can’t say the evidence really backs you up on that one.

  cbc.ca/…/anthropic-ai-safety-committments-9.71073…

  www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62dlvdq3e3o

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  • Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I still think they deserve some credit for at least trying to do the right thing. I don’t envy the position they’re in.

    Everyone’s rushing toward AGI. Trying to do it safely is meaningless if your competition - the ones who don’t care about safety - gets there first. You can slow things down if you’re in the lead, but if you’re second best, it’s just posturing. There is no second place in this race.

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    • purrtastic@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No AI bro company is on the path to AGI. Transformer technology will not lead to AGI.

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      • Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I never claimed it will.

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Right thing": compromising with authoritarian regimes to secure AI funding

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• XLE@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Anthropic’s “ethical” concerns were performative. They only fearmonger about fictional things that will make their product sound powerful (read: worth throwing money into).

  They try to scare people with fictional stories of AGI, a thing that isn’t happening, while ignoring widespread CSAM and sexual harassment generation, a thing that is happening.

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  • Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are we not moving toward AGI? Because from where I stand, I only see three scenarios: either AI research is going backwards, no progress is being made whatsoever, or we’re continuing to improve our systems incrementally - inevitably moving toward AGI. Unless, ofcourse, you think we’ll never going to reach it which I view as a quite insane claim in itself.

    If we’re not moving toward it, then I’d love to hear your explanation for why we’re moving backwards or not making any progress at all.

    Whether we’re 5 or 500 years away from AGI is completely irrelevant to the people who worry about it. It’s not the speed of the progress - it’s the trajectory of it.

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We are not “moving towards AGI” in any way with any modern technology, in the same way that we are not “moving towards FTL travel” because a car company added cylinders to an engine.

      The real “AI” dangers are people like Eli Yudkowski, a man who scares vulnerable people, sexually abuses them, and has spawned at least one murderous cult.

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      • Iconoclast@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We are not “moving towards AGI” in any way with any modern technology

        So that means you believe AI research is completely frozen still or moving backwards. Please explain.

        Comparisons to faster-than-light travel are completely disingenuous and bad faith - that would break the laws of physics and you know it.

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