"Guy whose job is to promote uptake of generative AI says generative AI is a big deal" would be a more accurate headline.
jefurii · 2d ago
We didn't have to build this. Just saying.
kermatt · 18h ago
With the amount of (potential) money to be made, it was inevitable. "Move fast and break things."
trod1234 · 1d ago
It was bound to happen.
The people seeking total control and power end up actively selecting against the evolutionary pressures that reward intelligence; the very thing that would normally allow them survive in chaotic times. Their choices doom themselves, and their descendants, as well as any who could not see through or stop their lies. Hubris.
Knowledge which should have been preserved, is lost, and all that's left is a vast void after a short period of time where everything chaotically slips through their fingers and all then find peace in nothingness.
When the consequences are so dire and visible, you treat those decisions with care, but that was not done because people were blinded.
The things people are saying now about these things I was saying right after the weights for open models were released to the public late 2022. Inaction is an action itself.
You've basically got a 10 year window from the point where you begin removing entry level positions, 2 years you lose the most competent people; they can't find work and seek out other areas, 5 years you start to permanently lose generational knowledge; the practical parts, and by 10 years, no amount of money will let you find those people, they won't exist anymore because there was no economic benefit (infinite cost). We are 3 months away from 2 years; on this timetable.
Supply chains fail, food systems fail, people then starve, as order devolves into chaos.
"It's going to happen in a small amount of time — as little as a couple of years or less," Amodei says.
Compare to a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43785319
The people seeking total control and power end up actively selecting against the evolutionary pressures that reward intelligence; the very thing that would normally allow them survive in chaotic times. Their choices doom themselves, and their descendants, as well as any who could not see through or stop their lies. Hubris.
Knowledge which should have been preserved, is lost, and all that's left is a vast void after a short period of time where everything chaotically slips through their fingers and all then find peace in nothingness.
When the consequences are so dire and visible, you treat those decisions with care, but that was not done because people were blinded.
The things people are saying now about these things I was saying right after the weights for open models were released to the public late 2022. Inaction is an action itself.
You've basically got a 10 year window from the point where you begin removing entry level positions, 2 years you lose the most competent people; they can't find work and seek out other areas, 5 years you start to permanently lose generational knowledge; the practical parts, and by 10 years, no amount of money will let you find those people, they won't exist anymore because there was no economic benefit (infinite cost). We are 3 months away from 2 years; on this timetable.
Supply chains fail, food systems fail, people then starve, as order devolves into chaos.