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Re:Board Members (2014) by uxhacker on Saturday November 18, 2023 @09:32AM (#38320032)
But OpenAI believe that they will develop AGI, maybe they will, and may they won’t, and also highly unlikely if they don’t close the next round, but that misses the point.

They believe that they will and therefore we need to ask is their governance structure fit for purpose if they achieve their goals?

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Re:Board Members (2014) by quonn on Saturday November 18, 2023 @11:43AM (#38321405)
They operate inside a legal framework. If they do achieve AGI, various parliaments will quickly pass laws. Congress is likely to take action.

It has been done for weapons, it has been done for cryptography in the 80s, it has been discussed for vaccines during the pandemic, it has been done for finance and surely it will be done for AGI.

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Re:Board Members (2014) by dreamcompiler on Saturday November 18, 2023 @02:16PM (#38323259)
AI researchers have been making breakthroughs and proclaiming that AGI is "just around the corner" since 1959.

There's absolutely no reason to believe OpenAI is right about this when thousands of experts have been wrong. AGI is deceptively difficult because it's almost impossible to see how far away you are from the goal. You can see how far you've come and extrapolate, but that's always a mistake.

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