Re:Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
by modzu on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:05AM
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guardrails in terms of policy, if not technical details, are still valuable.
the thing is, there are actually lots of reasons to think AGI cannot be constrained in this way. open AI researchers know this.
so that means, the promise and the charter are irrelevant. open ai will never release a general AI.
but in the meantime, deep learning is still reaping. every day it's being applied to something new and solving real, tangible problems. there's money to be made here, and that is what open AI seems to really be doing. being philosophical and "on top" of the futuristic moral dilemmas, whatever, is just marketing? and in the unlikely event that an AGI is created that can be tamed, great for open ai! if an AGI is created that cannot be tamed, what then? if it's really worth a trillion dollars, is it really just buried, or will the charter simply be rewritten?
you know, this reminds me a lot of all the great physicists working on the atom bomb, thinking it was never going to be used.
the thing is, there are actually lots of reasons to think AGI cannot be constrained in this way. open AI researchers know this.
so that means, the promise and the charter are irrelevant. open ai will never release a general AI.
but in the meantime, deep learning is still reaping. every day it's being applied to something new and solving real, tangible problems. there's money to be made here, and that is what open AI seems to really be doing. being philosophical and "on top" of the futuristic moral dilemmas, whatever, is just marketing? and in the unlikely event that an AGI is created that can be tamed, great for open ai! if an AGI is created that cannot be tamed, what then? if it's really worth a trillion dollars, is it really just buried, or will the charter simply be rewritten?
you know, this reminds me a lot of all the great physicists working on the atom bomb, thinking it was never going to be used.