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OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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I'm going to attract downvotes, but this article doesn't convince me he's becoming powerful and that we should be very afraid. He's a grifter, sleezy, and making a shit ton of money.
Anyone who has used these tools knows they are useful, but they aren't the great investment the investors claim they are.
Being able to fool a lot of people into believing the intelligence doesn't make it good. When it can fool experts in a field, actively learn, or solve problems without training on the issue, that's impressive.
Generative AI is just a new method of signal processing. The input signal, the text prompt, is passed through a function (the model) to produce another signal (the response). The model is produced by a lot of input text, which can largely be noise.
To get AGI it needs to be able to process a lot of noise, and many different signals. "Reading text" can be one "signal" on a "communication" channel - you can have vision, and sound on it too - body language, speech. But a neural network with human ability would require all five senses, and reflexes to them - fear, guilt, trust, comfort, etc. We are no where near that.
I agree overall, but fooling experts isn’t what would make AI valuable. Being able to do valuable tasks would make it valuable. And it’s just not good enough at valuable tasks to be valuable.