Speak for yourself. I work for an LLM startup that was successfully bootstrapped and is now highly profitable with 8-digit revenue and zero outside investment. Unlike OpenAI and Anthropic, we do not rely on deceiving investors to dump a trillion dollars into a tar fire with the false promise of delivering the machine god that will unemploy all of humanity (at best). Taking people who have an unbelievably large financial stake in lying at face value, and moreover, stating that those are the only people who can be trusted, is so unbelievably naive it's almost cute. Almost.
> We made a framework from which it can semi-organically emerge.
...by programming. Again, this is an appeal to emergent behaviour, which, repeating myself, was already well-demonstrated by Conway's Game of Life in 1970, and yet nobody lost their minds because the emergent behaviour didn't happen to refer to itself as "I" when trained to.
Speak for yourself. I work for an LLM startup that was successfully bootstrapped and is now highly profitable with 8-digit revenue and zero outside investment. Unlike OpenAI and Anthropic, we do not rely on deceiving investors to dump a trillion dollars into a tar fire with the false promise of delivering the machine god that will unemploy all of humanity (at best). Taking people who have an unbelievably large financial stake in lying at face value, and moreover, stating that those are the only people who can be trusted, is so unbelievably naive it's almost cute. Almost.
> We made a framework from which it can semi-organically emerge.
...by programming. Again, this is an appeal to emergent behaviour, which, repeating myself, was already well-demonstrated by Conway's Game of Life in 1970, and yet nobody lost their minds because the emergent behaviour didn't happen to refer to itself as "I" when trained to.