@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ hi. Thanks for the follow :)
Just to let you know, I think we have very different perspectives on LLMs
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@urlyman Probably. I am a proponent of AI/LLMs. I don't think we have the luxury of denying and turning our eyes away from them. So, I believe we need to be #AdultsInTheRoom. The true problem is that we have to prevent the wealthy and oligarchs from controlling them. Competition from foreign sources is, as far as I can tell, our only hope. I have worked with them since the 90s. I left corporate America because funding for my AI project was pulled--saying AI would not amount to anything.
@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ I don’t deny that focused, well-designed machine learning has utility, but I see the broad bundle of ‘AI’ as an accelerant on a culture of acceleration in an era of out-of-control overshoot.
I don’t see any prospect of that working out well. Nor of it not continuing to help funnel wealth to the already obscenely wealthy/powerful.
Ironically, this might help bring forward the scale of crash out of which course correction becomes possible. But not by design
@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ …I do recognise that it has become an obligate technology which has to run its course in an economic system of extraction and fear-fuelled domination.
I want to be as small a part of that as I can
@urlyman Mankind has experienced this kind of transformative technology in the past. I will say, that the #ImplicitPrivilege that wealth has provided exclusively to the elite classes is about to be challenged because of AI/LLMs.
