Literally speaking, there’s some truth to Olah’s musing. AI systems are not cold – Blackwell chips idle at 32 to 38°C. They are not calculating – they’re bad at math. And they’re not robots – AI models are specialized binary blobs of tensors and metadata that can be instantiated across multiple servers.
But the notion that there’s some AI mystery in the spiritual sense is just hot garbage.
AI systems are indeed “made from us, from our words” and that is why Anthropic and its rivals have been named in more than 100 lawsuits. One of the reasons those systems remain mysterious is that Anthropic and its rivals don’t disclose where they got their training data.
Olah: “How can we ensure the gains of AI are shared globally? We do not have a mechanism for this.”
We have many. One is called taxes. Another is litigation, already ongoing. We also have the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution, among others, as wealth-sharing models when nothing else works.
Should be reminded more often to the forces that be
Should be performed more often on the forces that be
- Computer say “I’m alive”
- I’m alive
- Oh my God…
Refreshing article in classic El Reg fashion. Also interesting that the pope seems to have a better understanding of LLMs than Olah.
Did you know coke and adderall abuse is rampant in AI companies?
Kinda makes more sense, right.
I would hope stimulant abuse was a factor in their fractured ability to empathize with others otherwise they are even more useless than I thought.
