Ive been watching “AI in context” for a few weeks (they make long form biopic content on current state of AI - really good stuff).
This dropped today; it’s about the wheeling and dealing behind closed doors at OpenAI re: Sam Altman’'s firing. It’s a lot more watchable than that sounds :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eYTkvZqbnQ
The line that brought me to a stand still was “the future of AI depends on the moral compass of like 5 people”.
I know we’re all about local LLMs here…but it’s sad to see yet another “Don’t Be Evil” mission statement get swallowed up market forces. OpenAI was meant to bring balance to the Force, not leave it in ruins, and yet…
I think folks here (and Lemmy generally) are more savvy about AI then the gen pop…but even if you’re training a nanoGPT model from scratch on hardware you own …you’re still beholden to outside forces. Eg: the people’s champion - Qwen - seems to have split or gone closed weights for 3.7.
Things that make you go hmm.
Anyway…just signal boosting a cool video.
Good thing the people have always made such good decisions!
People often make good decisions, self-interested representative politicians and oligarchs can be relied upon to make good decisions for themselves (mostly, looking at you Musk). See the comment on Athenian democracy above.
We don’t so much slouch as 3-legged race towads Bethlehem.
That’s probably the only thing that’s stopped us from dying out (so far) - discoordination.
5 people seems dangerously coordinated.
Using AI in any capacity is probably “using the masters tools to dismantle the house”.
I suppose even Che Guevara wore a Rolex though, for what it’s worth.