Understand AI for what it is, not what it might become.
  • sketelon@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    572·
    7 days ago

    Really? The guy behind the company called “Open” AI that has contributed the least to the open source AI communities, while constantly making grand claims and telling us we’re not ready to see what he’s got. We’re supposed to stop taking that guys word?

    Wow, thanks journalists, what would we do without you.

    • 5dh@lemmy.zipEnglish
      16·
      6 days ago

      Should your disappointment here really be pointed at the journalists?

      • Jtotheb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        181·
        6 days ago

        Which group of people uncritically magnified his voice and others like it for years? Tech journalism builds the legacies of people like Musk, Bankman-Fried and Altman.

    • MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      People talk a lot about the genericisation of brand names, but the branding of generic terms like this really annoys me.

      I’ll use the example I first noticed. A few years ago, the Conservative government was under criticism for the minimum wage being well under a living wage. In response, they brought in the National Living Wage, which was an increase to the minimum wage, but still under the actual living wage. However, because of the branding, it makes criticising it for not meeting the actual living wage more difficult, as you have to explain the difference between the two, and as the saying goes, “if you’re explaining, you’re losing”.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    5 days ago

    I don’t trust any of these types. If you haven’t noticed by now morally decent people are never in charge of a any large organization. The type of personality suited to claw their way to the top usually lack any real moral compass that doesn’t advance their pursuit of power.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    7 days ago

    It’s beyond time to stop believing and parroting that whatever would make your source the most money is literally true without verifying any of it.

    • u_u@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Applicable to everyone really, especially those that want to sell you something that sounds too good to be true.

  • ivanafterall@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    6 days ago

    You shouldn’t judge people on appearances.

    … but, I mean, come OOON… he looks like a reanimated Madame Tussaud’s sculpture. Like someone said, “Give me a Wish.com Mark Zuckerberg… but not so vivacious this time.” And he’s the CEO of an AI-related company.

  • OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    224·
    7 days ago

    but for now, his approach is textbook Silicon Valley mythmaking

    The difference is that in this case it is not hype—it is reality. It’s not a myth, it is happening right now. We are chugging inevitably down the track to the most dramatic discovery in human history. And Altman’s views on solving the climate crisis, disease, nuclear fusion… they are all within reach. If anything we need to increase our speed to get us there ASAP.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      7 days ago

      Tell me honestly, are you a bot or do you sincerely believe this shit and based on which qualification and experience?

      Gunpowder, electricity, combustion engines, universal electronic computers, rocketry, lasers, plastics - none of these made any dramatic changes. It was all slow iterative process of fuzzy transitions and evolution.

      While these made pretty fundamental impacts. Sam Altman’s company is using fuckloads of data to calculate some predictive coefficients, and the rest of its product can be done by students.

      It’s just real-life power controllers trying their muscles at bending the tech industry with usual means - capturing resources and using them to assert control. There were no such resources in the beginning, and then datasets turned into something like oil.

      Generally in computing (when a computer is a universal machine) everyone able to program can do a lot of things. This makes the equality there kinda inconvenient for real life bosses who can call airstrikes and deal in oil tankers.

      There was the smart and slow way of killing that via slow oligopolization, but everyone can see how that doesn’t work well. Some people slowly move to better things, and some were fine with TV telling them how to live, they don’t even need Internet. All these technologies are still kinda modular and even transparent. And despite what many people think, both idealistic left and idealistic right build technologies for the same ultimate goal, so Fediverse is good and Nostr is good and everything that functions is good.

      So - that works, but human societies are actually developing some kind of immunity to centralized bot-poisoned platforms.

      To keep the stability of today’s elites (I’d say these are by now pretty international), you need something qualitatively different. A machine that is almost universal in solving tasks, but doesn’t give the user transparency. That’s their “AI”. And those enormous datasets and computing power are the biggest advantage of that kind of people over us. So they are using that advantage. That’s the kind of solution that they can do and we can’t.

      Simultaneously to that there’s a lot of AI hype being raised to try and replace normal computing with something reliant on those centralized supply chains. Hardware production was more distributed before the last couple of decades. Now there are a few well-controllable centers. They simply want to do the same with consumer software. Because if the consumers don’t need something, they won’t have that something when they see a need.

      All these aside, today’s kinds of mass surveillance can’t be done with (EDIT:without) something like that “AI”. There simply won’t be enough people to have sufficient control.

      So - there are a few notable traits of this approach converging on the same interest.

      It’s basically a project to conserve elites. The new generation of thieves and bureaucrats wants to become the new aristocracy.

      • daddy32@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        7 days ago

        You’re right. This is just “SaaS”, “cloud APIs” approach turned to 11 - making some thing unavailable to everyone unless they agree to agree with any conditions you come up in the future. For example, if Github Copilot becomes genuinely and uniquely very useful, that’s bad for the software development industry over the entire world: it means that every single software dev company will have to pay “tax” to Microsoft.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.ccEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    Has people start making Sam Alternator’s AI image doing incendiary stuff? Maybe we should start doing that.

  • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2542·
    7 days ago

    It’s time to stop taking any CEO at their word.

    Edit: scratch that, the time to stop taking any CEO at their word was 100 years ago.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      I think the quote that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” is a bit older, and said about all the lessons of history before it.

      Somehow humanity doesn’t like the wisest rules out there. And prefers to read Palanick and talk about post-modernism instead of looking at the root.

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
          52·
          7 days ago

          ehh as much as everybody loves this sentiment… at the end of the day, those days are over. going that route, you get Syria type shit.

          violence at this point is a red herring. there are ways to engage tho but it requires people to take personal responsibility improve their lives and show solidarity with like minded people and the under class. if critical mass ever hits this, things can change.

    • Blackout@fedia.io
      41·
      7 days ago

      The easiest way to stop him is to walk up to him and whisper into his ear “end computer similation” and he will just disappear.

    • Southern Boy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      362·
      7 days ago

      I bet in 10 years my insurance plan will no longer cover imaging being interpereted by a radiologist.

      That’s a very sharp prediction, thanks. I will run that by some people.

      • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        7 days ago

        Considering how fractured medical billing is these days, often the techs contracted by your in-network doctors office are actually out-of-network.

        Isn’t medical billing fun?

          • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            It’s been a while since I’ve had supplementary procedures, so that’s good to know.

            Now I just have to wait for all nine (and a half) bills after emergency services.

        • Southern Boy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          15·
          7 days ago

          The way claims get sent back during billing I became suspicious a lot of them are getting read by machine (and very poorly) during the first round of mail so don’t worry medical billing will get even more fun thanks to AI

      • peopleproblems@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        7 days ago

        Yeah this might actually not be that far from reality. Computer vision already did a large amount of the lifting, with the massive pushes towards AI, AI will take the rest of us plebians healthcare.