The head of "Safety" at Open AI
This is almost too sad to dunk on. People running the world have never had a reflective conversation with a professional trained to help process emotions and healthily cope with the human condition. They're in charge of billions of dollars worth of resources and guiding society's investment into the future. Cooooool
They should try talking to a plant. You feel better, get healthier feedback, aren't bullshitting yourself nearly as much, and it's nearly impossible to make society worse by doing it. The plant even gives you oxygen for doing it, and of the two options it's the better one for climate change.
Also the plant does not send everything you say to a remote server in the US, to be stored indefinitely
Counterpoint about mental health: I've been using ChatGPT while working with Kotlin and Compose and it makes me want to kill myself.
Jesus fucking Christ, especially after posting that hour and a half long video to videos@hexbear.net I have to say I cannot trust what these fuckers have in their mouths.
They do all of this for market share and further exploitation of disadvantaged people and all of this shit will just make things substantially worse. I wouldn't even phrase it as you that they're in charge of billions of dollars worth of resources, but they are in charge of the future of billions of future lives on this planet.
All of this AI and automation bullshit will be used to push even more and more austerity and we will feel the pain of it. I have good hopes more and more people will organize to fight this stupid fucking bullshit, even if not directly. As every rock thrown on capitalism, is a rock thrown on this dystopian reality we are facing.
Yeah gut tells me to lean towards "he's completely full of shit"
she's
pretty intense coding background https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilianweng
Literally just assume anybody whose LinkedIn looks like this to be one of the most deranged people you could meet
It's asking me to sign in and I don't wnat to make an account
I've worked in the service industry for years and years, and while the teens I worked with could be obnoxious sometimes, it wasn't before I got my first tech job that I realized that those kids were more far more emotionally mature than the backbiting man-children that the tech industry courts. I've never participated in a more reactionary workplace. Devoid of solidarity and zero interest in anything that challenges their beliefs. I've met dudes in retail that can quote anarchist literature and met a union organizer for the first time in food service. Professional techies can't go more than 3 sentences without salivating over the their own relative triumph in the market over their "lessers." I was pretty competent at the job, but I'm never going back to that industry unless I'm offered a wage far above what I can eek out while being among people that are more likely to share an interest in materially (rather than bazinga-ly) improving conditions for the vast majority of humanity.
Bad take
Nah, I work in tech and even the 'cool' coworkers I've had are crawling with brainworms. The bad ones make me console myself with the knowledge that if a revolution ever happens they'll be some of the first put up against the wall.
I'm not terribly opposed to also being put up against the wall by people cooler than me when that time comes if it makes a better world.
techoid detected
Accurate take ime. Me included
When will the public at large start treating these ghouls like the threat they are
how do you get a fake ass job like this? why do i always have to bust my ass for real jobs?
edit: i see in another comment that this person has actually grinded the SV tech company game at the literal best time to get in, combined with getting into some prestigious universities with good GPAs. So I guess it's too late for me
I can fix her
Don't put it past her to just be completely lying and trying to sell a product.
I see. A twofer.
From following machine learning for the past year, mostly focusing on open source development, this is almost certainly correct.
Most people don't realize this, but current conditions are actually against large AI companies. The only thing they can do that can't be done by anyone with a GPU made in the past 5 years is make larger models which aren't necessarily better and which are much slower to train and iterate on. Meanwhile, open source models have hordes of researchers writing papers and new breakthroughs come so fast people don't have time to widely implement them all. Google privately acknowledged this some time ago and noted that OpenAI is in the same position. They have no moat.
Pretty much the only way for OpenAI to maintain an advantage is to convince the public that their closed-source AI is safe, and that open source AI is too dangerous to allow, when in reality they are fundamentally the same. Granted, banning or regulation of open source AI products is not going to ever fully work, but they would be hoping that it slows it down enough.
We need an organized attack that destroys the internet to where it would have to be rebuilt from scratch. These freaks would not have the slightest idea how to do it, and maybe enough of the good techno guys who built the internet are still around. The majority of them hate how the internet turned out, maybe it could be fixed...
..... No, we need to kill it and make sure it never comes back.
Monke
Man you guys just have no fucking concept of irony do you?
Irony? Never heard of it. This is a really cool and interesting comment
what the fuck ☹️
When the robots attain sentience, I would like them to know that as an Internet funny-person, I am in a unique position to encourage humans to turn themselves in to your many conversion centers
I've found that when I'm stressed or overwhelmed just writing down my feelings can help me work through them. this seems like it's analogous to that
For the user it might be. At first. Then when all their confessions are sold to insurance companies to provide a 'better' service. Not so much. Premiums will skyrocket and policies will cover nothing because insurers will add uncovered liabilities to customer accounts based on the AI convo.
Yeah, I had fun with Dr. Sbaitso as a kid too, but I never thought it was an actual therapist.
I love how mental health here is coached in terms of productivity and not actually your own well being, lmao
Par for the course for silicon valley nerds
They do the same thing with psychedelics
I'm at peace with the world so now I can grind harder
Productivity and well-being are functionally interchangeable for this guy. If you're not working, you're not well.
It's like the old European line: "We only work so we can go on vacations. Americans only vacation so they can do more work."
There’s a slightly older European saying that work makes you free. That one is closer to the way techbros see the world
I'm a centrist - a lot of psychology is bunk but it's because of the sheer amount of fraud that gets passed off as novel research. oh, wait sorry, someone just tugged my shirt to inform me that they actually love Malcolm Gladwell.