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Of we ignore the risks and threats of AI for a second, this whole story is actually incredibly funny. So much childish stupidity on display on all sides is just hilarious.

Makes what the world would look like if, say, the Manhattan Project would have been managed the same way.

Well, a younger me working at OpenAI would resign latest after my collegues stage a coup againstvthe board out of, in my view, a personality cult. Propably would have resigned after the third CEO was announced. Older me would wait for a new gig to be ligned up to resign, with beginning after CEO number 2 the latest.

The cyckes get faster so. It took FTX a little bit longer from hottest start up to enter the trajectory of crash and burn, OpenAI did faster. I just hope this helps ro cool down the ML sold as AI hype a notch.

>>hef198+(OP)
The scary thing is that these incompetents are supposedly the ones to look out for the interests of humanity. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

Not that I had any illusions about this being a fig leaf in the first place.

>>hef198+(OP)
Of we ignore the risks and threats of AI for a second [..] just hope this helps ro cool down the ML sold as AI hype

If it is just ML sold as AI hype, are you really worried about the threat of AI?

>>jacque+qb
Perhaps they were put in that position precisely because of their incompetence, not despite of it.

>>jibe+Sb
It can be both, a hype and a danger. I don't worry much about AGI by now (I stopped insulting Alexa so, just to be sure).

The danger of generative AI is that it disrupts all kinds of things: arts, writers, journalism, propaganda... That threat already exists, the tech being no longer being hyped might allow us to properly adress that problem.

>>stingr+mf
I wouldn't rule that out. Normally you'd expect a bit more wisdom rather than only smarts on a board. And some of those really shouldn't be there at all (conflicts of interest, lack of experience).

>>hef198+ki
> I stopped insulting Alexa so, just to be sure

Priceless. The modern version of Pascal's wager.

>>hef198+(OP)
> Makes what the world would look like if, say, the Manhattan Project would have been managed the same way.

It was not possible for a war-time government crash project to have been managed the same way. During WW2 the existential fear was an embodied threat currently happening. No one was even thinking about a potential for profits or even any additional products aside from an atomic bomb. And if anyone had ideas on how to pursue that bomb that seemed like a decent idea, they would have been funded to pursue them.

And this is not even mentioning the fact that security was tight.

I'm sure there were scientists who disagreed with how the Manhattan project was being managed. I'm also sure they kept working on it despite those disagreements.

>>anonym+Wp
That's what happened to the German program though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapons_program

>>Apocry+rL
Well, yes, but they were the existential threat.

Hey, maybe this means the AGIs will fight amongst themselves and thus give us the time to outwit them. :D

>>anonym+PN
Actual scifi plot.

>>anonym+Wp
For real. It's like, did you see Oppenheimer? There's a reason they put the military in charge of that.