Isn't it bad now that Sam Altman and the others are backpedaling on this and going "jobs are going to still exist you just can't imagine them!" because the PR problem was getting so big? [1]

Like don't we want people running these companies to be honest to the public rather than misdirection?

[1]. https://www.platformer.news/sam-altman-ai-backlash/

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xg15 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> "jobs are going to still exist you just can't imagine them!"

Ironically, this makes even less sense.

If (ostensibly) the goal of developing LLMs was so we can all create more while working less, but he also assures us there will be just as much work in the future, then what was the point of this tech in the first place?

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JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> don't we want people running these companies to be honest

What about any of these folks’ biographies hints that they’re capable of being honest?

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saghm an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Which one of those things he said do you consider "honest" and not PR? Both of them sound like PR to me, just aimed at different audiences

	▲	ianm218 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I think before he thought OpenAI was going to make him a trillionaire he was more honest about X Risk and job displacement since he didn't have the incentive to lie. Most early AI thinkers saw AI as more dangerous than nukes. > We founded Anthropic because we believe the impact of AI might be comparable to that of the industrial and scientific revolutions, but we aren’t confident it will go well. [1] [1]. https://www.anthropic.com/news/core-views-on-ai-safety