Interesting. Here’s another great quote from summers: “I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable” Good thing he’s on the board of OpenAI, really shows how much benefiting to humanity the company is doing.
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AI Hype Bubble: Billions for Speculative Superintelligence Promises
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You thought the dot com bubble where people raised millions on PPT slides was ridiculous? Welcome to unbridled AI Hype where Sutskever gets $2B to promise not to release "superintelligence" & Murati gets $2 BILLION to….? Sure. Its not a bubble.
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Anthropic as benevolent alternative narrative questioned
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Now, Anthropic is being sold as the benevolent alternative to OpenAI, just like OpenAI was sold as the benevolent alternative to Google back in 2015. Don't buy it. Please read the book which is based on years of meticulous reporting by Karen.
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Author’s Long-Standing Aversion to OpenAI Since 2015
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The book also articulates why I've had such an aversion to OpenAI since its inception in 2015, more so than any other tech company. I even said that there is a higher chance of me wanting to go back to Google, the company that fired me, than OpenAI.
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Empire of AI book explains aversion to artificial intelligence
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I've never been to fully articulate why I had such an aversion to them, but once you read Empire of AI, you'll understand.
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Empire of AI Now: Essential Reading for Tech Professionals
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I know I'm late to the party to be finishing @_KarenHao Empire of AI Now. But now that I've finished it, I can tell you that it is nothing short of a masterpiece: required reading for people in the tech or anyone who wants to be in the tech industry.
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Building Ethical Tech That Honors Elders and Communities
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I had the pleasure of talking to Anika Collier Navaroli about building tech that honors our elders, in the spirit of executing on our ideas of the tech we want rather than constantly being put in the position of fighting the broligarchy's dumpster fires.
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Power Concentration in AI: Rebutting Eugenic Ideologies
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We have the equivalent of the scientologists running the field of AI with untold amounts of money and power and we're the ones who have to do point by point rebuttals of their eugenicists dreams.
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Superintelligence moves from mockery to mainstream through massive funding
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“Everybody sort of laughed at them out of the room. But because of the money, the billions of dollars that were going into it, they started slowly taking over. Fast-forward to now, this conversation about superintelligence is basically mainstream.”
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Tech Billionaires and AGI: From Fringe to Mainstream Recognition
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I stand by what I said: "I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it is…They were like some fringe group that nobody took seriously,” she says of how the tech billionaires who talked up AGI were viewed by those who worked in her field.