I guess it's not news but it is pretty wild to see the level of millenarianism espoused by all of these guys.
The board of OpenAI is supposedly going to "determine the fate of the world", robotics to be "completely solved" by 2020, the goal of OpenAI is to "avoid an AGI dictatorship".
Is nobody in these very rich guys' spheres pushing back on their thought process? So far we are multiple years in with much investment and little return, and no obvious large-scale product-market fit, much less a superintelligence.
As a bonus, they lay out the OpenAI business model:
> Our fundraising conversations show that:
> * Ilya and I are able to convince reputable people that AGI can really happen in the next ≤10 years
> * There’s appetite for donations from those people
> * There’s very large appetite for investments from those people
The board of OpenAI is supposedly going to "determine the fate of the world", robotics to be "completely solved" by 2020, the goal of OpenAI is to "avoid an AGI dictatorship".
Is nobody in these very rich guys' spheres pushing back on their thought process? So far we are multiple years in with much investment and little return, and no obvious large-scale product-market fit, much less a superintelligence.
As a bonus, they lay out the OpenAI business model:
> Our fundraising conversations show that:
> * Ilya and I are able to convince reputable people that AGI can really happen in the next ≤10 years
> * There’s appetite for donations from those people
> * There’s very large appetite for investments from those people