Oh no, not senate action
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How will they be able to handle the onslaught of a strongly worded letter?
Stop with the threats and just fucking do it. This shit is why everyone thinks the Dems are useless.
I doubt he can. Too many other Senators getting checks from the Chatbot labs.
What development? It's an LLM. The only thing improving is it's ability to trick dumb people into thinking it's smart.
By which he means funding and dc planning approval
Any pause will have to be a global treaty; the unfortunate reality is that we're in an arms race now, and despite Sanders' threats otherwise, I don't think there is going to be much will to pause in the US while China keeps developing.
And to be clear, I think it would be every wise to pause development and, afterwards, keep the pace slow. We know how to make "AI" more capable, but we don't know how to make it stay aligned with human goals. The technology is useful and isn't going anywhere, but that doesn't mean we have to develop it as quickly as possible without regard to the real dangers it brings with it.
We’re not in an arms race. That’s part of the bullshit Anthropic and like want you to believe. LLMs are not nukes. LLMs are a fad with most benefits having been to coders, presuming they were already good coders.
25 years from now we’re either going to still be in this “arms race,” or we’ll have better clarity on how the billionaire class misled us all.
Stopping development will do us more good than the harm of perusing a perpetual wealth transfer in the name of a fake arms race.
Even if it were an arms race. Slowing down means you eventually speed back up in a better direction. Why would you want to be so gun ho about what’s clearly an argument for progressing with arrogance toward the technology, because someone else might discover something first? What?
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Any pause will have to be a global treaty
Which is why tech CEOs love to promote it. They know it'll never happen.
We know how to make “AI” more capable, but we don’t know how to make it stay aligned with human goals.
"Alignment" is almost entirely a myth cooked up by AI companies who want to make their word generators sound scarier than they are. There's no such thing: the next word generator generates next word. It's unpredictable because it's built that way. "Hallucination" and "going rogue", all poor terms and pathetic attempts to fearmonger and humanize, are identical functions to "working" and "aligning".
The technology... isn’t going anywhere
The "it's just inevitable" cliche rears its ugly head again.
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If he can get senate action on AI then why can't he get senate action on all the other plethora of crap happening to us right now?
He cant, but he wants to. Which is important.
We should never take something away from an action with good intentions, just because others want to stop him.
Thats not how we get the change in the end. Because someday it might succeed.
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They bought the senate Bernie
I think we need to start talking global treaties where we just not produce for a minute. Like strategic factory shut downs that let us breath some fresh air.
Ai isn't the only one polluting for no reason. No layoff. Just really nice time off to move about the world. Fuck ai for sure. Data centers are not needed when it's only other AI bots talking to eachother. Build some housing and crisis help centers for fucks sake.
Build some housing and crisis help centers for fucks sake.
Cities, counties, states and the federal government could all do that right now, but seems taxpayers aren't willing to vote for it.
When Mamdani sat down at his desk, and moved the giant pile of paperwork that every other mayor ignored, he found a button that said "Something Good." He pushed it, and something good happened. So he pushed it again. And again. And he kept pushing it.
That button was always there, and any mayor before him could have pushed it, but they didn't. That's all they had to do, and they just didn't do it.
Furthermore, that button is on the desk of every politician, and most of them never push it either.
We need to make them ALL start pushing that button.
He did business as usual with a better social media presence
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