alt Hacker NewsCracks are starting to appear. Open Ai and Anthropic are publicly asking for slowdown in AI research. Translation: We see this technology not being any more useful than what it is now, no AGI is coming, and the first one to accept this and slow down the dollar burn rate will incur the wrath of the market. So let's say this big boogey man technology will end all life on earth and we all slow down together. Bonus points if we can lobby for this to be included in the national security bucket. Then US govt can bail us out. Yay!
If Nvidia is the bank, they should be starting to sweat a bit. It's not often companies ask for a voluntary slowdown.
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It's always funny to me when they do the fear-propaganda, e.g. A statement like "There's a 10% chance that AI will destroy humanity in a decade". If a government were for the people, it can reasonably react with "Okay - if that's the case, you should shut down. And if not you will be arrested. Because at this point you're willingly building a nuclear bomb."
The frontier companies asking for regulation is somehow one of their less insane marketing ploy to date
> So let's say this big boogey man technology will end all life on earth and we all slow down together.
The first messenger from Anthropic is out with this exact message. Stop us (them) or everyone will be killed by 2030
https://youtu.be/i30jVPqQeOM?si=yosxw4MLoVtPW-7v