The people who invented all the stuff that led to this (not grifters like scam altman) such as diffusion, backpropagation, transformers, perceptrons, embeddings, etc all went to university. Lots of papers that they wrote.
Maybe universities failed to teach those geniuses about ethics or civics.
That’s really not fair to universities or the inventors. Knowledge is not inherently evil, and things that have far reaching positive impacts can be used for nefarious purposes. Modern society has perverse incentives, but individuals adding to a corpus of humanity’s knowledge are not the ones at fault.
Ethics/civics would only be useful if you saw this as a possible outcome. Most of us are just looking to solve problems and make everyone’s lives easier.
The people who invented all the stuff that led to this (not grifters like scam altman) such as diffusion, backpropagation, transformers, perceptrons, embeddings, etc all went to university. Lots of papers that they wrote.
Maybe universities failed to teach those geniuses about ethics or civics.
That’s really not fair to universities or the inventors. Knowledge is not inherently evil, and things that have far reaching positive impacts can be used for nefarious purposes. Modern society has perverse incentives, but individuals adding to a corpus of humanity’s knowledge are not the ones at fault.
i think people who worked on llms either thought their work would geniunely make world better, or they are “just following orders” people.
Ethics/civics would only be useful if you saw this as a possible outcome. Most of us are just looking to solve problems and make everyone’s lives easier.