A hypothetical: Imagine I held a magic wand that could make AI systems improve in all the following ways:
- More environmentally friendly
- Less capturable by a few large corporations
- Less built on "plagiarism machine" foundations
- More reasonable and capable of making judgements which are explainable, accountable, and more accurate
- More participatory and open
However, we are still left in our present socioeconomic system.
Should I wave the magic wand and improve things, or does improving AI in these ways still make the world worse?
I mean, you skipped the whole "totally unreliable" part.
But even including "gives you exactly correct and accurate information with context every time", what you're really asking is "what if I could change LLMs *entirely* into a new technology that didn't have any of the failures and externalities of LLMs and wasn't just a sophisticated Markov chain but actual AI?"
and sure why not 🤷♂️
