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OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman (futurism.com)
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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

My issue is that I have no reason to think AI will be used to improve my life. All I see is a tool that will rip, rend and tear through the tenuous social fabric we're trying to collectively hold on to.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    A tool is a tool. It has no say in how it's used. AI is no different than the computer software you use browse the internet or do other digital task.

    When its used badly as an outlet for escapism or substitute for social connection it can lead to bad consequences for your personal life.

    When it's best used is as a tool to help reason through a tough task, or as a step in a creative process. As on demand assistance to aid the disabled. Or to support the neurodivergent and emotionally traumatized to open up to as a non judgemental conversational partner. Or help a super genius rubber duck their novel ideas and work through complex thought processes. It can improve peoples lives for the better if applied to the right use cases.

    Its about how you choose to interact with it in your personal life, and how society, buisnesses and your governing bodies choose to use it in their own processes. And believe me, they will find ways to use it.

    I think comparing llms to computers in 90s is accurate. Right now only nerds, professionals, and industry/business/military see their potential. As the tech gets figured out, utility improves, and llm desktops start getting sold as consumer grade appliances the attitude will change maybe?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    A tool is a tool.

    That is a miopic view. Sure a tool is a tool, if I take a gun and use it to save someone from getting mugged = good if I use it to mug someone = bad

    But regardless of the circumstance of use, we can all agree that a gun's only utility is to destroy a living organism.

    You know, I know, everyone here knows, AI will only be used to generate as much profit as possible in the shortest amount of time, regardless of the harm it causes. And right now, the big promise of AI is that it will replace costly human employees, that's it, that's all.

    Fortunately, it is really bad and unlikely to achieve this goal

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    A better analogy is search engines. It’s just another tool, but

    • at their best enable your I to find anything from all the worlds knowledge
    • at their worst, are just another way to serve ads and scams, random companies vying for attention, they making any attention is good attention, regardless of what you’re looking for

    When I started as a software engineer, my detailed knowledge was most important and my best tool was the manuals. Now my most important tools are search engines and autocomplete: I can work faster with less knowledge of the syntax and my value is the higher level thought about what we need to do. If my company ever allows AI, I fully expect it to be as important a tool as a search engine.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Now my most important tools are search engines and autocomplete: I can work faster with less knowledge of the syntax and my value is the higher level thought about what we need to do. If my company ever allows AI, I fully expect it to be as important a tool as a search engine.

    And this is when the cost calculation comes into play. Using a search engine is basically free, using OpenAI for development is tied up with licenses and new hardware.

    So the question will be, are you going to improve efficiency to the point where the cost of the license and new hardware is worth the additional efficiency?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Currently my company is more concerned with intellectual privacy, security, liability. Of course that means they’ll only allow ai where they can pay for guarantees, and that brings us back to the cost.

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