Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine
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The nature of AI is unnatural. It's not intelligent. It's not human

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47956398

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/46320128

Literally speaking, there’s some truth to Olah’s musing. AI systems are not cold – Blackwell chips idle at 32 to 38°C. They are not calculating – they’re bad at math. And they’re not robots – AI models are specialized binary blobs of tensors and metadata that can be instantiated across multiple servers.

But the notion that there’s some AI mystery in the spiritual sense is just hot garbage.

AI systems are indeed “made from us, from our words” and that is why Anthropic and its rivals have been named in more than 100 lawsuits. One of the reasons those systems remain mysterious is that Anthropic and its rivals don’t disclose where they got their training data.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    14·
    17 days ago

    More offensive still is Olah’s notion that Anthropic “inherited” all the training data it scraped without consent, as if the company had nothing to do with that process.

    There lies humanity, stabbed in the back by a cabal of investors. Its last will and testament says, “We, the people, bequeath all our creation to Anthropic, so it may be resold to our disinherited descendants.”

    They’re not wrong

    • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      8·
      17 days ago

      I can’t wait for a more sensible Supreme Court to come about so that these AI companies can stand before them and hear that since their models were created using data created by the public, that those models, and everything created by those models are considered Public Domain.

      All those people unknowingly create open source software by having Claude help write their code is going to be amazing.

      • quick_snail@feddit.nl
        2·
        16 days ago

        If they modeled it off of copyleft data too, then putting it in the public domain would be a violation of the license