What if the computers developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) stuff were not connected to the public Internet or any other network or means of communication? Duh?
This guy has gotten a lot of attention because of that article, which he posted on his personal website. His education is in biophysics, not computer systems. He's already made $15 billion through his Anthropic company. He can afford to slow down.
Read it for yourself. I read part of it but then started skimming. I kept thinking about my reaction to Hugging Face:
Amodei states his concern about "OpenAI-Hugging Face incident (OAI-HF)". That is addressed in this podcast:, which includes:
Some people have said that I anthropomorphized too much in the way I told this story: “These are not civilizations nor do they have desires just like a CPU thread or a bunch of programs don’t.”
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Anthropomorphized is the past-tense form of the verb anthropomorphize, which means to give human traits, emotions, or form to non-human things like animals, objects, or gods.
