Re:OpenAI Completes Deal That Values Company at $157B
by benterix on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:09PM
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> ASI by definition will be all-powerful or close to it.
That's a huge assumption.
AI in SF: all-powerful all-controlling abstract entity.
AI in reality: LLMs on thousands of servers with GPUs, operated and controlled by engineers, gated by a startup masquerading as a non-profit and operating for years at a loss, with a web interface and an API, fragile enough that it becomes unavailable at times.
Because if you don't trust it, you're fucked:
- Your attempts to limit its influence on your life will be effective only if the ASI decides to willfully ignore or not notice you.
- If it lies or not, there's nothing you can really do. The outcome it wants is practically guaranteed regardless. It will be running circles around your mental capacity like a human drawing circles around an ant on a piece of paper.
So what option do you really have but to trust it? I mean, sure, you can not trust the all-powerful god, but your lack of trust will never really have any effect on the real world, or even your life, as the ASI will always get what it wants.
Really, your only option is to prevent it from happening to begin with.
All that said - I think ASI will be great and people's concerns are overblown.