
A snippet from Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the “Quasi-Religious” Push for Artificial Intelligence talk on youtube.
Talking about the Maori tribe in New Zealand wanting to get people to learn Maori to keep their language alive without big tech companies taking their intellectual property:
(31:43 in the talk) There’s plenty of research that shows when you have highly curated small data sets you can actually create very powerful AI models and then once they had that tool they were able to do exactly what they wanted to open source this educational resource to their community.
And so my vision for AI development in the future is to have more small task specific AI models that are not trained on vast polluted data sets but small curated datasets and therefore only need small amounts of computational power and can be deployed in challenges that we actual need to tackle for humanity … (climate change, drug discovery)
Karen Hao wrote Empire of AI, a big book on silicon valley ambitions with AI.
She talks about BOOMERs and DOOMERs:
BOOMERS: it’s gonna be great! Utopia.
DOOMERS: it’s gonna be the Terminator!
She talks about Sam Altman as being a very Machiavellian character, who’s intent on ruling the world via Tech.