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Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” (musictech.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Two intrinsic problems with the current implementations of AI is that they are insanely resource-intensive and require huge training sets. Neither of those is directly a problem of ownership or control, though both favor larger players with more money.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

And a third intrinsic problem is that the current models with infinite training data have been proven to never approach human language capability, from papers written by OpenAI in 2020 and Deepmind in 2022, and also a paper by Stanford which proposes AI simply have no emergent behavior and only convergent behavior.

So yeah. Lots of problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

While I completely agree with you, that is the one thing that could change with just one thing going right for one of all the groups that work on just that problem.

It's what happens after that that's really scary, probably. Perhaps we all go into some utopian AI driven future, but I highly doubt that's even possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

If gigantic amounts of capital weren't available, then the focus would be on improving the models so they don't need GPU farms running off nuclear reactors plus the sum total of all posts on the Internet ever.