This is a good point – AI is becoming an increasingly important way of doing general purpose computation…
and once again we are seeing a war on general purpose computation.
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AI as General Purpose Computation Under Attack
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OpenAI governance structures insufficient to prevent systemic issues
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Yes exactly – it's a natural result of how the system works, and is almost impossible to avoid. OpenAI clearly tried to avoid it but setting up various governance structures, but governance is insufficient to fix this.
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Americans demand stronger AI regulation and corporate accountability
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Some data from @MorningConsult
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• 61% thought AI needs to be more highly regulated
• 69% said tech companies aren’t developing AI responsibly
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OpenAI’s regulatory capture strategy lacks executive liability measures
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Although OpenAI did not get created with the idea of regulatory capture as a business plan, today they promote licensing barriers to entry, but do not promote increasing executive liability.
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Executive Liability: The Real Test of AI Company Seriousness
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Increasing executive liability would not help profits, and is *not* something I've seen any large AI company propose or advocate for. This is a key test of who is serious.
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OpenAI Leadership Lacks Organizational Behavior Understanding
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I find it really concerning how often I read things from OpenAI leadership that show a total lack of awareness or understanding of the basics of organisational behaviour. They will not understand the behaviour or likely future of their own company until they learn about this.
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Google’s AI Progress: Transformers and Diffusion Models
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IMO the public perception that Google is not making much progress in AI is wrong. They invented transformers and diffusion models. The perception comes from the fact that they have been very cautious in what they release.
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Andrew Ng Existential Risk Claims Disputed by Former Google Researcher
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Andrew Ng is claiming that the idea that AI could make us extinct is a big-tech conspiracy. A datapoint that does not fit this conspiracy theory is that I left Google so that I could speak freely about the existential threat.
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Rep Eshoo advocates safe AI development beyond big tech entities
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"We need to develop AI that is safe, trustworthy, and responsible," said @RepAnnaEshoo at this morning’s discussion on public sector AI. We must develop AI beyond a small group of entities to be able to innovate, to benefit everyone, she said. Webinar https://
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Major AI Partners Contribute Templates to Community
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A huge thank you to our partners for benevolently contributing templates to help our community get better together s/o @AnthropicAI @awscloud @pinecone @supabase @Redisinc @neo4j @DataStax @elastic @weaviate_io @replicate @cohere @TimescaleDB @trychroma @Ollama_ai check them