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by m_fayer
2584 days ago
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> Still, Altman insisted there’s a better argument to be made for thinking about — and talking with the media about — the potential societal consequences of AI, no matter how disingenuous some may find it. “The same people who say OpenAI is fear mongering or whatever are the same ones who are saying, ‘Shouldn’t Facebook have thought about this before they did it?’ This is us trying to think about it before we do it.” I have a lot of sympathy for this point. Someone at baby-Facebook, many years ago, could plausibly have predicted the malevolent forces it eventually unleashed. Maybe someone did. And they could easily have been dismissed for indulging unlikely dystopian sci-fi scenarios. Or maybe someone else come up with a different plausible scenario that never came to pass, and are remembered as a pessimistic naysayer ready to pass up a great business for some overwrought navel-gazing. It's a brave thing to risk that outcome. |
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Someone there did, sort of. That was Dave Morin. According to a recent interview, he argued with leadership to keep facebook private, but failed. So he left to go start Path, which was like FB but totally private. Like OpenAI, it got lots of funding and hype, but never got off the ground.
The interview: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/without-fail/76hrml/an-early-f...