What world are you living in if you think Tesla and SpaceX have been in the past 10 years business failures?
Hard to tell, given that…
(0) newspapers apparently rename things for clicks: https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/430098/belgian-man-com...
(1) him being a hypocrite tells you a mistake has been made, not which of the contradictory positions is wrong.
My resolution is: GPT isn't the only AI, and Musk is pretty open about wanting to put FSD AI into those androids of his, so if the Optimus AI was as good as Musk sells it as being, it would absolutely be covered by this.
(2) how do you even compare the fatality rates here?
GPT doesn't move, and stationary Teslas aren't very dangerous, so miles-per-death seems a poor choice.
User-hours per death? Perhaps, but I don't know how many user-hours either of them have had yet.
And then (3), while I don't really trust self-promotional statistics, those are the only ones I have for Tesla, which says that switching it on increased the distance between accidents: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport
Better sources appreciated, if anyone has them! :)
(4) finally, as this isn't just about GPT but all AI: how much of the change in the USA's suicide rate since the release of Facebook can be attributed to the content recommendation AI that Facebook uses? What share of culpability do they and Twitter bare for the Myanmar genocide thanks to imperfections in the automation of abuse detection and removal? Did the search AI of Google and YouTube promote conspiracies, and if so how much blame do they get for the deaths proximally caused by anti-vaccination? And in reverse, over-zealous AI have seen fraud where it did not exist, and people have committed suicide as a result: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/23/22399721/uk-post-office-s...
It's naked self-interest.
I'm not convinced that he's wrong.
[0] https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...
> When the insider conversation is about the grief of seeing your daughter lose her first tooth, and thinking she's not going to get a chance to grow up, I believe we are past the point of playing political chess about a six-month moratorium.
And this is exactly the risk. These things will just go other places while the US trips over its salty billionaires trying to create political red tape to allow their own businesses to catch up.
Surely Elon has no reservations about putting premature self driving cars on the road. Or are we just going to pretend that the last decade of his business failures have nothing to do with this hypocrisy? At least GPT hasn’t killed anyone yet.
An open letter full of forged signatures and conflicts of interest aren’t convincing enough for the repercussions of the government stepping in. More than anything, this just reeks of playing on peoples fear of change.
New things are scary, but in my opinion, this kind of drastic measure starts with broad interest panels that first evaluate and detail the risks. Ooo scary doesn’t cut it.