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by csomar 1178 days ago
> People are really freaking out about AI aren’t they?

AI touches the domain of software development the most (since we have put a lot of data about it on the Internet). It touches other things too like writing, and design. It doesn't touch things like food delivery, construction, or a farmer.

Currently, they happen to be at the lower tier of society. For some reason. Despite the fact that you can't go two days at a row without food. AI can flip this. There is no need for this army of developers, designers, marketers and bureaucrats. Some people are afraid.

Tl;dr: The people who are freaked out about AI are the people who are bound to lose the most by it.

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Logistics and farming seem like poor examples: both can be solved with programming and a little hardware.
> Tl;dr: The people who are freaked out about AI are the people who are bound to lose the most by it.

And some probably used ML assistance to contribute to the draft:

> "At some point, it may be important to get independent review before starting to train future systems, and for the most advanced efforts to agree to limit the rate of growth of compute used for creating new models." We agree. That point is now.

This would lead to emphasis on algorithmic compute efficiency, quickly decreasing reliance on mega-actor cooperation! Hah!