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AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity

441 points · 399 comments · ljewalsh

chasd00 · 1790595720 · focus · HN ↗
I’ve never seen CEOs work so hard to make the public aware of how dangerous and out of control their flagship product is. It makes me automatically assume they’re scheming about something else like regulatory capture to protect their market.
1. hellweaver666 · 1790597785 · focus · HN ↗
  I have a theory... the call to slow down is not because of the true danger of LLM's but because they can't actually deliver the General AI they're promising in the near future. They will use their "caution" to justify their failure to deliver (and then when this excuse is played out they will blame regulation, energy costs or a million other things).
  1. mofeien · 1790599155 · focus · HN ↗
    When, in the past three years, has model progress seemed to decelerate to you, indicating some limit?
    The Statement on AI Extinction Risk is more than three years old, signed by the three CEOs: <a href="https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk" rel="nofollow">https://aistatement.com/work/statement-on-ai-extinction-risk
    They have been warning about AI extinction risk for years, and AI progress has only been accelerating.
    PunchyHamster · 1790601970 · focus · HN ↗
    the ceiling of abilities seem to be growing steadily but the floor of errors seems to not change. New models can do more and more but still fail at seemingly (to human) simple tasks

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