>Many/most of the GenAI companies have interesting ideas but no real business plan
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This is most likely the reason being the SAMA firing, to be able to re-align to the MIC without terrible consequence, from a PR perspective.
no criticism here aside from the fact that we will see the AI killer fully autonomous robots will be here and unfettered by 'alignments' much sooner than we expected...
And the MIC is where all the unscrupulous monies without audits will come from.
> no criticism here aside from the fact that we will see the AI killer fully autonomous robots will be here and unfettered by 'alignments' much sooner than we expected...
What exactly do you mean with this sentence? That less woke/regulated companies will suddenly leapfrog the giants now? What timeframe are we talking here?
And do you mean for example non public mil applications from US/China or whatever or private models from unknown players?
One thing i've been wondering is that if GPT-4 was 100 mil to train, then there's really a lot of plutocrats, despots, private companies and states for that matter that could in principle 10x that amount if they really wanted to go all in, and maybe they are right now?
The bottleneck is the talent pool out there though, but i'm sure there's a lot people out there from libertarians to nation states that don't care about alignment at all, which is potentially pretty crazy / exciting / worrying depending on view.
Aren’t they? Pretty sure that most tactical and strategical decisions are automated to the bottom. Drones and cameras with all sorts of CV and ML features. You don’t need scary walking talking androids with red eyes to control battlefields and streets. The idea of “Terminator” is similar to a mailman on an antigrav bicycle.
I don’t think the bottleneck is the talent pool. There are plenty of folks smart enough to do what OpenAI did, the question is, did they have enough access to capital?
> That less woke/regulated companies will suddenly leapfrog the giants now?
What kind of "leapfrog" do you think is necessary to produce a "killer fully autonomous robot"?
We've actually had "autonomous killer robots," machines that kill based on the outcome of some sensor plus processing, for centuries, and fairly sophisticated ones have been feasible for decades. (For example it's trivial to build a "killer robot" that triggers off of face or voice recognition.)
The only thing that's changed recently is the kind of decisions and how effectively the robot can go looking for someone to kill.
The interesting thing is who's actively working on this, any despots, private companies, foreign nations, who from the talent pool, criminal orgs or even western military which mostly works for the western elite classes.
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This is most likely the reason being the SAMA firing, to be able to re-align to the MIC without terrible consequence, from a PR perspective.
no criticism here aside from the fact that we will see the AI killer fully autonomous robots will be here and unfettered by 'alignments' much sooner than we expected...
And the MIC is where all the unscrupulous monies without audits will come from.