Read the last paragraph of the OP at least. This is not asking for $5 trillion to be handed solely to OpenAI to go become a world monopoly on chip manufacture. What he’s really asking is for investors to direct funds to radically increasing world compute capacity, to the profit for the chip manufacturers and likely many others. OpenAI just gets to continue the track it’s on without this constraint. There is nothing here about them monopolistically controlling this entire investment and in fact the opposite is true: it’s framed as a broad partnership venture.
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whoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.works 9 months agoThere’s no denying it, they really are believers over there at OpenAI. Who in history would have the gall to ask for more than the federal budget for a single company unless they thought they were gonna change the world? He’s a billionaire, he already won capitalism, he’s got more than he could ever spend. You only ask for $7 trillion if you think you can change the world. However, he’s downright megalomaniacal.
Basically, if he’s right that this is the most important tech in world history and deserves $7 trillion in research, it’ll make OpenAI the du jour monopolist over said most important tech in world history. Outright dystopian.
I believe strongly in machine learning/deep learning, but not capitalism.
scarabic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Generative AI is not an important development. General AI would be. This is just a party trick.
whoelectroplateuntil@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Yeah, AI’s been a whole field for many decades, machine learning and deep learning is a whole field that existed and was doing tons of interesting work before transformers came out. Companies use party tricks to gin up interest and money for their work all the time. None of this changes the fact that AI is important? You think ChatGPT is the end of the line for modern AI research, for real?
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s also open source too. With faster chips and standard training sets, it will be trivial for anyone to train a basic AI to recognize fire hydrants or whatever. Just like with computers, the “revolution” will not be one giant company but every business using their own.
Your fridge only needs to recognize food items. It doesn’t need any more intelligent software. I want a food recognition AI and cameras in the fridge and cabinets so I know what food I need to buy. This doesn’t even need live cameras (for power consumption, privacy, and storage). It can just take a picture and analyze it when the door opens, then delete the picture.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Sorry what’s all open source?
GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Llms. There are very competitive, fully open source models.
scarabic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Generative AI pales in importance compared to General AI but it is still an important development on its own.
FonsNihilo@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Remember the rumors that Altman was fired because he found a breakthrough in general AI?
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They’re bullshit. Any breakthrough in General AI world be news everywhere forever.
FonsNihilo@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Would it? There is a lot of technology out there that we aren’t too aware of.
Some examples from the past: The internet was a military tool that was in use in the 1960’s.
Siri was originally a military project. The version originally launched in 2015 was deployed in the US military as early as 2007. I’m not saying siri is a powerful tool, but for what it was in 2015, it started the Ai helper crap we have today.
Little boy and Fat Man - Ended ww2. Very secret.
Powerful tools are hidden. General AI would be the most powerful tool ever built. There would be no confirmation it exists until it’s been fully deployed under our noses.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The breakthrough was the ability to do like 3rd grade math. Being able to reason is a big step to researchers but it’s still very much in the research phase.