Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market

Some days it looks to be a three-way race between AI, climate change, and nuclear weapons proliferation to see who wipes out humanity first.

But on closer inspection, you see that humans are playing all three sides, and still we are losing.

Oh, you mean it wasn't just concidence that the moment OpenAI, Google and MS were in position they started caving to oversight and claiming that any further development should be licensed by the government?

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

I mean, I get that many people were just freaking out about it and it's easy to lose track, but they were not even a little bit subtle about it.

Why do you think Sam Altman is always using FUD to push for more AI restrictions? He already got his data collection, so he wants to make sure ""Open""AI is the only game in town and prevent any future competition from obtaining the same amount of data they collected.

Still, I have to give Zuck his credit here, the existence of open models like LLaMa 2 that can be fine-tuned and ran locally has really put a damper on OpenAI's plans.

"Ng said the idea that AI could wipe out humanity could lead to policy proposals that require licensing of AI"

Otherwise stated: Pay us to overregulate and we'll protect you from extinction. A Mafia perspective.

Restricting open source offerings only drives them underground where they will be used with fewer ethical considerations.

Not that big tech is ethical in its own right.

Bot fight!

they don't want to copete with open source. Yeah that is not new.

Lol how? No seriously, HOW exactly would AI 'wipe out humanity'???

All this fear mongering bollocks is laughable at this point, or it should be. Seriously there is no logical pathway to human extinction by using AI and these people need to put the comic books down.
The only risks AI pose are to traditional working patterns, which have been always exploited to further a numbers game between Billionaires (and their assets).

These people are not scared about losing their livelihoods, but losing the ability to control yours. Something that makes life easier and more efficient requiring less work? Time to crack out the whips I suppose?

All the biggest tech/IT consulting firms that used to hire engineering college freshers by the millions each year have declared they either won't be recruiting at all this month, or will only be recruiting for senior positions. If AI were to wipe out humanity it'll probably be through unemployment-related poverty thanks to our incompetent policymakers.

When Google's annual revenue from its search engine is estimated to be around $70 to $80 billion, no wonder there is great concern from big tech about the numerous A.I tools out there, that would spell an end to that fire hose of sweet sweet monetization.

Enforce privacy friendliness & open source through regulation and all three of those points are likely mood.

If you're wondering how AI wipes us out, you'd have to consider humanity's tendency to adopt any advantage offered in warfare. Nations are in perpetual distrust of each other -- an evolutionary characteristic of our tribal brains. The other side is always plotting to dominate you, take your patch of dirt. Your very survival depends on outpacing them! You dip your foot in the water, add AI to this weapons system, or that self-driving tank. But look, the other side is doing the same thing. You train even larger models, give them more control of your arsenal. But look, the other side is doing even more! You develop even more sophisticated AI models; your very survival depends on it! And then, one day, your AI model is so sophisticated, it becomes self aware...and you wonder where did it all go wrong.

These dudes are convinced AI is gonna wipe us out despite the fact it can't even figure out the right number of fingers to give us.

We're so far away from this being a problem that it never will be, because climate change will have killed us all long before the machines have a chance to.

File this under duuuuuuhhhhh

The tech companies did not invent the AI risk concept. Culturally, it emerged out of 1990s futurism.

Not just that, but also that.

meanwhile, capitalism is setting the world on fire

The Google Brain cofounder is not Big Tech?

Ok, you know what? I'm in...

If all the crazy people in the world collectively stop spending crazy points on sky wizards and climate skepticism, and put all of their energy into AI doomerism, I legitimately think the world might be a better place.

Obviously a part of the equation. All of these people with massive amounts of wealth power and influence push for horrific shit primarily because it’ll make them a fuck ton of money and the consequences won’t hit till they’re gone so fuck it

Why would AI wipe out humanity? Unless it's not programmed correctly, that shouldn't even be a possibility.

I've read enough scifi to know that AI is a credible risk that we shouldn't be too laissez-faire with...

Another thing not talked about is the power consumption of AI. We ripped on PoW cryptocurrencies for it and they fixed it with PoS just to make room for more AI.

While more efficient AI computation is possible we're just not there yet it seems.