Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
by mustacheemperor on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @04:41PM
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Not having lived through either moment in history, I have to remark that the current discourse about regulating AI feels like it rhymes more with the efforts to lock up encryption technology with government regulation in the 90s than with the research community's conference on recombinant DNA.
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Re:Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
by beepbooptheory on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @05:46PM
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Well at least one difference there is all those cypherpunks, rightly or wrongly, felt like having access to encryption tech was synonymous with individual liberty, and in that there fights were an opposition to the state controlling them.
But in this case I don't see how we can divorce this AI stuff from the huge companies that alone have the infrastructure and capital to train and sustain them (at the moment). As such, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with individualism/libertarianism as such.
So, less punk, but way more technological determinism.