The really concerning part here is that Altman is, and wants to be, a large part of AI regulation [0]. Quite the public contradiction.
[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-artificial...
Like some intern’s idea to train the voice on their favorite movie.
And then they’ve decided that this is acceptable risk/reward and not a big liability, so worth it.
This could be a well-planned opening move of a regulation gambit. But unlikely.
If in fact, that was the case, then OpenAI is not aligned with the statement they just put out about having utmost focus on rigor and careful considerations, in particular this line: "We know we can't imagine every possible future scenario. So we need to have a very tight feedback loop, rigorous testing, careful consideration at every step, world-class security, and harmony of safety and capabilities." [0]
Yes, because we all know the high profile launch for a major new product is entirely run by the interns. Stop being an apologist.
The general public doesn’t understand the details and nuances of training an LLM, the various data sources required, and how to get them.
But the public does understand stealing someone’s voice. If you want to keep the public on your side, it’s best to not train a voice with a celebrity who hasn’t agreed to it.
Conman plain and simple.
> The new board should act
You mean like the last board tried? Besides the board was picked to be on Altman’s side. The independent members were forced out.
I’d wager that most senior+ engineers or product people also have equally compelling “the vision”s.
The difference is that they need to do actual work all day so they don’t get to sit around pontificating.
Ah, the famous rogue engineer.
The thing is, even if it were the case, this intern would have been supervised by someone, who themselves would have been managed by someone, all the way to the top. The moment Altman makes a demo using it, he owns the problem. Such a public fuckup is embarrassing.
> And then they’ve decided that this is acceptable risk/reward and not a big liability, so worth it.
You mean, they were reckless and tried to wing it? Yes, that’s exactly what’s wrong with them.
> This could be a well-planned opening move of a regulation gambit. But unlikely.
LOL. ROFL, even. This was a gambit all right. They just expected her to cave and not ask questions. Altman has a common thing with Musk: he does not play 3D chess.
i dont see why he should be in jail
E.g. flying Congress to Lake Cuomo for an off-the-record “discussion” https://freebeacon.com/politics/how-the-aspen-institute-help...
https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...
It's a Musk-error not an SBF-error. (Of course, I do realise many will say all three are the same, but I think it's worth separating the types of mistakes everyone makes, because everyone makes mistakes, and only two of these three also did useful things).
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Worldcoin is centrally controlled making it a classic "scam coin". Decentralization is the _only_ unique thing about cryptocurrencies, when you abandon decentralization all that's left is general scamminess.
(Yes, there's nuance to decentralization too but that's not what's going on with Worldcoin.)
The public hardly heard from or saw the mgmt of these firm in media until shit hit the fan.
Today it feels like managment is in the media every 3 hours trying to capture attention of prospective customers, investors, employees etc or they loose out to whoever is out there capturing more attention.
So false and condradictory signalling is easy to see. Hopefully out of all this chaos we get a better class of leaders not a better class of panderers.
I don't think the issue is that Vision doesn't matter. I think the issue is Sam doesn't have it. Like Gates and Jobs had clear, well defined visions for how the PC was going to change the world, then rallied engineering talent around them and turned those into reality, that's how their billions and those lasting empires were born. Maybe someone like Elon Musk is a contemporary example. Just don't see anything like that from SamA, we see him in the media, talking a lot about AI, rubbing shoulders with power brokers, being cutthroat, but where's the vision of a better future? And if he comes up with one does he really understand the engineering well enough to ground it in reality?
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...
Take your point about LLMs though.
However, GP practices are essentially privatised - so you do have the right to register at another practice.
Whelp. Let us see if this one sticks.
Which one?
on edit: this being based on American legal system, you may come from a legal system with different rules.
Any criticism of AI is being met with "but if we all just hype AI harder, it will get so good that your criticisms won't matter" or flat out denied. You've got tech that's deeply flawed with no obvious way to get unflawed, and the current AI 'leaders' run companies with no clear way to turn a profit other than being relentlessly hyped on proposed future growth.
It's becoming an extremely apparent bubble.
It's still bad, don't get be wrong, it's just something I can distinguish.
Why be cartoonishly stupid and cartoonishly arsehole and steal a celebrity’s voice? Did he think Scarlett won’t find out? Or object?
I don’t understand these rich people. Is it their hobby to be a dick to as many people as they can, for no reason other than their amusement? Just plain weirdos
It's a thing you put on your phone
I don't have a phone
Well, we can't register you
You don't accept people who don't have phones? Could I have that in writing please, ..., oh, your signature on that please ...
Considering the movie's 11 years old, it's surprisingly on-point with depictions of AI/human interactions, relations, and societal acceptance. It does get a bit speculative and imaginative at the end though...
But I imagine that movie did/does spark the imagination of many people, and I guess Sam just couldn't let it go.
Correcting, the thing about this whole situation with OpenAI is they are willing to steal everything for use in ChatGPT. They trained their model with copyrighted data and for some reason they won't delete the millions of protected data they used to train the AI model.
Decentralisation allows trust-less assurance that money is sent, it's just that's not useful because the goods or services for which the money is transferred still need either trust or a centralised system that can undo the transaction because fraud happened.
That's where smart contracts come in, which I also think are a terrible idea, but do at least deserve a "you tried!" badge, because they're as dumb as saying "I will write bug-free code" rather than as dumb as "let's build a Dyson swarm to mine exactly the same amount of cryptocurrency as we would have if we did nothing".
> Cool story bro.
> Except I could never have predicted the part where you resigned on the spot :)
> Other than that, child's play for me.
>Thanks for the help. I mean, thanks for your service as CEO.
It's funny that just seven days ago I was speculating that they deliberately picked someone whose voice is very close to Scarlett's and was told right here on HN, by someone who works in AI, that the Sky voice doesn't sound anything like Scarlett and it is just a generic female voice:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40343950#40345807
Apparently .... not.
That is indeed something it does.
But it also gives you the assurance that a single entity can't print unlimited money out of thin air, which is the case with a centrally controlled currency like Worldcoin.
They can just shrug their shoulders and claim that all that money is for the poor and gullible Africans that had their eyeballs scanned.
They seem to love "testing" how much they can bully someone.
I remember a few experiences where someone responded by being an even bigger dick, and they disappeared fast.
Sure, but the inability to do that when needed is also a bad thing.
Also, single world currencies are (currently) a bad thing, because when your bit of the world needs to devalue its currency is generally different to when mine needs to do that.
But this is why economics is its own specialty and not something that software nerds should jump into like our example with numbers counts for much :D
They're basically owned by Microsoft, they're bleeding tech/ethnical talent and credibility, and most importantly Microsoft Research itself is no slouch (especially post-Deepmind poaching) - things like Phi are breaking ground on planets that openai hasn't even touched.
At this point I'm thinking they're destined to become nothing but a premium marketing brand for Microsoft's technology.
He lies and steals much more than that. He’s the scammer behind Worldcoin.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
> Altman is, and wants to be, a large part of AI regulation. Quite the public contradiction.
That’s as much of a contradiction as a thief wanting to be a large part of lock regulation. What better way to ensure your sleazy plans benefit you, and preferably only you but not the competition, than being an active participant in the inevitable regulation while it’s being written?
It’s both.
This isn’t even close to the most unethical thing he has done. This is peanuts compared to the Worldcoin scam.
Based on what I see in the videos from The Lockpocking Lawyer, that would be a massive improvement.
Now, the NSA and crypto standards, that would have worked as a metaphor for your point.
(I don't think it's correct, but that's an independent claim, and I am not only willing to discover that I'm wrong about their sincerity, I think everyone writing that legislation should actively assume the worst while they do so).
The Lockpicking Lawyer is not a thief, so I don’t get your desire to incorrectly nitpick. Especially when you clearly understood the point.
> Based on what I see in the videos from The Lockpocking Lawyer, that would be a massive improvement.
A thief is not a lock picker and they don't have the same incentive. A thief in a position to dictate lock regulation would try to have a legal backdoor on every lock in the world. One that only he has the master key for. Something something NSA & cryptography :)
"A is demonstrating a proof of B" does not require "A is a clause in B".
A being TLPL, B being that the entire lock industry is bad, so bad that anyone with experience would be a massive improvement, for example a thief.
If you've watched his videos then surely you should know that lockpicking isn't even on the radar for thieves as there are much easier and faster methods such as breaking the door or breaking a window.
Other people have commented to further explain the point in other words. I recommend you read those, perhaps it’ll make you understand.
When and why would BTC or ETH need to print unlimited money and devalue themselves?
And the answer to that is all the reasons governments do just that, except for the times where the government is being particularly stupid and doing hyperinflation.
> Something something NSA & cryptography :)
Indeed, as I said :)
What does being outed even mean anymore? It's just free advertising from all the outlets that feel they can derive revenue off your name being in their headlines. Nothing happens to them. SBF and Holmes being the notable exceptions, but that's because they stole from rich people.
[1] Just to head off people saying that such a use is not a copyright violation -- I'm not saying it is. I'm just saying that it's extremely sketchy and, in my view, ethically unsupportable.
I don't think the cookies thing is a good example. That's passive incompetence, to avoid the work of changing their business models. Altman actively does more work to erode people's rights.
> It's still bad, don't get be wrong, it's just something I can distinguish.
Can you? Plausible deniability is one of the first things in any malicious actor's playbook. "I meant well…" If there's no way to know, then you can only assess the pattern of behavior.
But realistically, nobody sapient accidentally spends multiple years building elaborate systems for laundering other people's IP, privacy, and likeness, and accidentally continues when they are made aware of the harms and explicitly asked multiple times to stop…
So scammers see other scammers, and they just think there's nothing wrong with it.
While normal people who act in good faith see scammers, and instinctively think that there must be a good reason for it, even (or especially!) if it looks sketchy.
I think this happens a lot. Not just with Altman, though that is a prominent currently ongoing example.
Protecting yourself from dark triad type personalities means you need to be able to understand a worldview and system of values and axioms that is completely different from yours, which is… difficult. …There's always that impulse to assume good faith and rationalize the behavior based on your own values.
Like many people who try to oppose psychopaths though, they don't seem to be around much anymore.
I thought this when he didn't launch Worldcoin in the US but Africa, and consistently upped the ante to the point where he was offering people in the poorer parts of the continent amounts that equalled two months wages or more to scan their retinas.
Why was that necessary? It wasn't to share the VC windfall.
Bernie Madoff is another funny name we should throw in there.