They must have just learned they’re not getting the government bail-out they were hoping for, so they’re scrambling for Plan B, which is to play the “safety” card to lock out new startups and foreign competitors. The big companies will probably form an AI Safety Consortium that conveniently sets standards in their own favor.
I don’t believe for a second that the same people who were willing to destroy the planet last week are concerned with saving humanity this week.
Supposedly they are already profitable or breaking even on inference. So the money they are burning is mainly for the bigger and better models. If they stop any further devellopment they might actually be quite close to profitability. But then they will be leapfrogged within a few months unless the competitors also stop.
“slowdown” means “prevent competition and maintain the status-quo”
Yep - they’re established, so it’s ladder-pulling time!
While they quietly panic about the constantly rising costs of running their models, the lack of new training data, and the sheer drop investment capital took while they were too busy hemorrhaging money to realize.
Now they’ll act like they’re scaling back in order to protect the public and hopefully figure out their golden parachute strategy while cutting startups and smaller businesses out of the market completely.
resigning Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned “the people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade”.
Can we, maybe, NOT build the big human eating machine?
The Torment Nexus? But it sounded so cool in that classic sci fi novel “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus”
It’s lucky for us that they are wrong. Still, it’s disturbing how eager they are given that belief. I will never be able to understand people trying to end the world.
I mean, I get being nihilistic, but being enthusiasticly so is baffling.
Hey maybe we should put it all back in the box.
Said pandora
Ah finally, we are here. The diminishing return is here. The trillion dollar bet is finally showing its first cards, and its flopping hard.
We dont even have to wait, LLM bullshittery is dead in less than 10 papers away lol
All those assholes trying to shove it into our faces. Fucking shut all of that down.
Anyone else find it funny that if you skim over “Amodei” too quickly, it looks like it says “AI Model”? Dude was born to be in this industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
See also: Sam Alt(ernative to)man.
Maybe they are building a moat.
It’s a shame how polarized people have become. No discussion of game theory making it difficult to slow things down even if everyone in America wanted to. No discussion about potential solutions. Just people feeding their confirmation biases, and obliviously living in their echo chambers.
