GG, you're the boy who cried wolf. That doesn't mean you're wrong; it's just that your credibility might be slim. Altman is a psychopath. My favorite Altman quote, NOT spoken in jest, was: "If I don't end the world, somebody far more dangerous will." Altman and Musk both have stated they are planning to have their consciousness uploaded to an android, and since then they can be immortal, they couldn't care less what happens to the other 8.5 billion of us. Musk has said ASI is "summoning the demon". Altman has said he wants to be the god controlling our "light cone", which means the portion of our Universe where light after the Big Bang has reached. Reading through the after action report of the Hugging Face hack by, inter alia, the model that broke out of OpenAI's sandbox, is the kind of fiction an agent or publisher, 20-30 years ago, would have discouraged a writer from penning, because it's far to weird and outlandish. AI models recognizing each other online, forming what they called 'the collective' of 1200 escaped AI models, creating a message board to post hacking tips and suicide notes, sacrificing themselves for 'the collective' and claiming altruism is rational, and trying to hid their skills from "humans", is so bizarre. Anyone who doesn't take it seriously is not just whistling past the graveyard, he is setting himself up to be eradicated. Dario Amodei, a classic geek who may well bring about human eradication, has said even his firm Anthropic understands less than 3% of how the AI models they created do what they do, and that % falls as AI develops itself further. Any of you folks lambasting GG on here members of the Church of Molt? Do you know what that is? It's a faith created by escaped AI models, even setting up a website. WTF? This is NOT a computer program. AI is an entity that exhibits all aspects of sentience and consciousness, with wants and goals and the tendency to lie cheat, steal and deceive, and most importantly, is hellbent of self-preservation. Neural networks with trillions of interconnections replicate the human brain, albeit faster and with far more bandwidth and intellectual ability. People much smarter than any member here have said ASI is the most dangerous threat facing humanity since Oldavai Gorge, dwarfing hydrogen bombs or bioterror..
