It’s not AGI, it’s barely even regular AI, when an LLM is this heavily directed. This appears to be very real over on Twitter. What’s most telling is the thinness of the prompts that yield very specific responses that, suffice it to say, Grok would not have provided even 3 months ago.
I’ll simply say this: no one has declined more in my estimation in my entire life than Elon Musk. I thought he was an engineering genius not even 5 years ago, perhaps awkward in some ways, but earnest. Now he is (or is working very diligently to project an identity of) a white supremacist desperate to play off of traditional racist and antisemitic fears to maintain his own status and influence. His ambition and resources have been combined with a monstrous agenda, and the world is much worse for it. It’s tragic in every way.
With regards to AI, there needs to be more discussion of the market for AIs, plural. I think a lot of people are operating off the assumption that AI will be like Google or VHS. A natural monopoly; one AI to rule them all and bind them. I’m not so sure. I think there is a very real chance that AI’s will find niches. That different algorithms will create different families of bespoke AIs. It feels like the world is already siloed into echo chambers of entertainment- and identity-based news feeds. If AI allows us each to get bespoke answers, serving our own person confirmation biases, to each and every question, is that better or worse? In a counter intuitive way, it could actually be better. You can’t get communities and cults of one. It might be better for the world if the news became something you couldn’t create effective propaganda out of.
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