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1. hosel · 1790647522 · focus · HN ↗

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   1. antonvs · 1790652115 · focus · HN ↗

      So we should believe the boy who cried wolf, this time?

      If all these claims were being made about some tech further along than LLMs currently are, they might be plausible. But LLMs on their own are not going to be “superintelligence” of the kind Altman is currently cynically spreading fear about. We know their limitations, and those limitations can’t simply be eliminated with more training or better harnesses.

      > Just imagine that people ringing the fire alarms are being sincere.

      The top three possibilities here are: they’re not being sincere, they’re just marketing; they’re being sincere, but they don’t understand the technology very well and are putting too much weight in what the first group are saying; they’re talking about a risk further in the future than OpenAI’s latest model.

      No-one serious outside of OpenAI believes “this is the one”. At best, you’re conflating arguments being made on entirely different timelines, falling for the exact kind of equivocation Altman is relying on.

      1. chrisjj · 1790681440 · focus · HN ↗

         > But LLMs on their own are not going to be “superintelligence” of the kind Altman is currently cynically spreading fear about

         The concern is not superintelligence. The concern is superstupidity - in unleashing dangerously unreliable computer programs on the internet.

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