Was salivating all weekend waiting for this to drop, from Subbarao Kambhampati's group:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have achieved block stacking abilities. It is a straight shot from here to cold fusion! ... unfortunately, there is a minor caveat:
Looks like performance drops like a rock as number of steps required increases...
I vaguely remember mentioning this AI doomer before, but I ended up seeing him openly stating his support for SB 1047 whilst quote-tweeting a guy talking about OpenAI's current shitshow:
I've had this take multiple times before, but now I feel pretty convinced the "AI doom/AI safety" criti-hype is going to end up being a major double-edged sword for the AI industry.
The industry's publicly and repeatedly hyped up this idea that they're developing something so advanced/so intelligent that it could potentially cause humanity to get turned into paperclips if something went wrong. Whilst they've succeeded in getting a lot of people to buy this idea, they're now facing the problem that people don't trust them to use their supposedly world-ending tech responsibly.
When Jason Allen submitted his bombastically named Théâtre D’opéra Spatial to the US Copyright Office, they weren't so easily fooled as the judges back in Colorado. It was decided that the image could not be copyrighted in its entirety because, as an AI-generated image, it lacked the essential element of “human authorship". The office decided that, at best, Allen could copyright specific parts of the piece that he worked on himself in Photoshop.
“The Copyright Office’s refusal to register Theatre D’Opera Spatial has put me in a terrible position, with no recourse against others who are blatantly and repeatedly stealing my work without compensation or credit.” If something about that argument rings strangely familiar, it might be due to the various groups of artists suing the developers of AI image generators for using their work as training data without permission.
Our anti-AI milita will be called "The Artists' Rifles"
HN seems to be particularly deranged today, doesn't it?
It mostly seems to be a mopey debate over whether Saltman's impending apotheosis is good or bad.
Job interviews by AI avatars are real and happening, apparently https://www.404media.co/ai-avatars-are-doing-job-interviews-now/
True believers at Vox' Future Perfect "vertical" let out a hearfelt REEEEEE as Saltman makes the obvious move to secure all the profits
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/374275/openai-just-sold-you-out
The Zitron-pilled among us probably suspect that part of the real reason for this is, ironically, to obscure the fact that OpenAI has no real profits because of how ludicrously expensive their models are to train and operate and how limited the actual use cases that people will pay for have proven. It's better from a "getting investor money" perspective to have everyone talking about how terrible it is that investor profits are no longer capped for humanitarian reasons than to have more people ask whether we're getting close to the peak of this bubble.
Expanding on that, part of me feels Altman is gonna find all the rhetoric he made about "AI doom" being used against him in the future - man's given the true believers reason to believe he'd commit omnicide-via-spicy-autocomplete for a quick buck.
Hell, the true believers who made this pretty explicitly pointed out Altman's made arguing for regulation a lot easier:
shocked that scorpions in a scorpion's nest funded by their scorpion mates might have fallen into stinging
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