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Investment firm Silicon Angle got AI firms to sign onto a letter promising to make AI as important as gas-guzzling cars and industry-destroying Internet. You can read the full letter and the list of signatories at https://openletter.svangel.com.
Twitter reacted with cheers and jeers. Here are some of the best jeers. Source: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1764659720642818414.
Text of open letter promising to make the world better thru great AI
Neoluddite: I wonder if you will break this pledge quicker than the last pledge you made to Elon Musk in the Founding Agreement of OpenAI.
Martin Shkreli: never ever ever
Logos & Aesthes: We call on everyone to broadly deploy automobiles and build highways to improve people's lives and unlock a better future.
Sincerely, Ford, GM, Volkswagen
John Connor: "Committed to building AI that will contribute to a better future for humanity." That means nothing. Who decides what "better future" means? The AI companies?
AI & Design: Who gets to "make the choices" here?
Marcin: What have you contributed? Pin it. I'll check. Impress me! I need it.
Max : What is this commitment, concretely? AI safety does not come up at all, or at least not explicitly. The [letter] is too vague to be of any use as a "commitment". Sounds like PR junk, honestly.
LetMeChatGPThat: “We are going to try our best.”
Oren, Maker of Ghosts in Machines: I haven’t even signed the Geneva Conventions and you want me to sign this?
Jeremy Stamper: I’m signing the open letter to have a worse future.
Valerie: Somebody has a 501(c) [non-profit organization] seeking hefty donations from friends at the country club!
Matt Stevens: I'm not sure a *letter* signed by the world's largest and most profitable companies is going to ease much concern.
All of those companies instead building in the open -- transparent and cooperative -- for improving humanity would be better received.
Andrew Kemendo: Literally nobody who has been in AI more than a decade believes this. The capitalist class is doing precisely what they do: Rape and pillage the work of others for their own hoarding desires.
Lorenzo Estrada: You should begin by paying artists that you have trained your models from, seriously, it would be nothing without them.
Bestiarius: Good, now after the open letter, open source the models.
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