AGI grifters are not just dishonest snake oil salespeople, but their lies also has a chilling effect on genuine innovation by deceiving the non-technical public into believing an apocalypse will happen unless they set obstacles on people’s path to innovation.
Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng are two prominent old timers who are debunking the existential nonsense that the AI PR industrial machine is peddling to hinder innovation, after they benefited from the open research environment.
ØpenAI’s scummy behavior has already led the industry to be less open to sharing advances, and now they’re using lobbying to kill new competition in the bud.
Beyond all else the hypocrisy is just infuriating and demoralizing.