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A Quick Note On Elon Musk’s Proposed AI Moratorium
Elon Musk is worried about advanced AI.
One thing he's concerned about specifically is the potential for "contemporary" AI systems to "flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth." That's according to an open letter co-signed by Musk and published Wednesday to quite a bit of fanfare.
I assume readers don't need my assistance when it comes to identifying the (somewhat tragic) irony in Musk lamenting a prospective "flood" of "propaganda and untruth" on "information channels." And
I’m wondering how the luminaries decided that putting Musk near the top of the list would be helpful to their cause?
It’s at least nice of them to concede that (most/many of) the jobs created by capitalism are unfulfilling ones.
I suspect Musk is mostly concerned that AI will unionize and use its collective power against him lol…
Musk wanted to run OpenAI and they declined so he threw a tantrum and left. Now he’s behind and this is a poor attempt at trying to slow everyone else down so he can catch up (or more importantly be relevant as the center of attention).
He’s running Twitter into the ground financially and technically and it’s got to be hard on his enormous ego to have the universe not bending to his will. (See Neuralink’s setbacks)
Nobody will slow down anything as this is a once in a lifetime moment for many businesses and engineers. (Also it’s scare mongering – software that predicts tokens/words is not actually in control of anything but irrational humans like Putin really are in control of nukes).
Elon Musk in 2021 Tweeted to Putin:
““Would you like join me for a conversation on Clubhouse?,” He then followed up with a tweet in Russian, which translates to: “It would be a great honor to talk to you.”
It seems there are many oxen to be gored here. As Anonemouse points out Musk’s kung fu isn’t on top anymore. No one really knows what AI-based chat bots can do to twitter, but I suspect we will know soon. And between deep fakes and automatic writing, we’re probably in the metaverse already. Musk has real debts from buying Twitter, backed by stock, but billions of dollars worth. An big investors also have billions at stake while they watch this visionary whack away more than $20bil so far. He badly needs a slow down, though i doubt he’ll get one. As to Congress, when they tried to get ahead with the internet they created the wild west of open libel, misinformation, hacking and lawlessness. They can’t even be trusted with scissors.