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.
It depends on the incentive structures bult into the socioeconomic system. That’s mainly profit maximization. Moral compasses just don’t get into it. It may seem they do if you’re a worker, perhaps lower middle management. The higher you go, the more success is dependent solely on executing the corporate strategy that comes from above, and the strategy given by the board always boils down to - grow profits. It doesn’t matter much who exactly the people are in the different positions. If Sundar Pichai fails to grow Google’s profits for some time, he’ll be replaced with someone who will. His moral compass cannot stand in the way of growing profits, even if he had one.