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In reply to the discussion: OMG!! THIS is what Trump and Musk are up to!! (Forget the sensational distractions!) [View all]ancianita
(42,729 posts)Seriously, he's only got 6 followers on his YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbEvhs_xHk9G21kmKOvx57Q
Now this one Instagram post makes him prophetic? Be fascinated at the possibility if you want, but...
It's more plausible and not at all revelatory that owners of AI also know that AI can be dangerous to their children's futures, not to mention humanity's. The rest of AI owners don't share this outlook on the US government, and would refuse to be dragged into this setup, even if military contracts helped build Silicon Valley.
At Google -- look them up on wikipedia or elsewhere
-- Angelia Angelova
-- Jeff Dean -- considered a godfather in Silicon Valley
-- Alan Eustace
-- Timnit Gebru
-- Ian Goodfellow
-- Geoffrey Hinton
-- Meg Mitchell
-- Larry Page, Google founder
-- Sergey Brin, " "
At DeepMind (seed funded by Thiel and Musk, granted)
-- Demis Hassibis, founder of DeepMind
-- Shane Legg, founder of DeepMind
-- Koray Kavukcuoglu
-- David Silver, builder of AlphaGo, the turning point of AI history
-- Mustafa Suleyman
At OpenAI
-- Sam Altman
-- Greg Brockman
-- Ilya Sutskever
Other leaders at Baidu, NVIDIA, ClarifAI
3,100+ employees of Google, joined by other technology workers, opposed Google's participation in Project Maven, in a letter they and more than 1,000 tech academics from Stanford to the East Coast: "
We...demand that Google terminate its contract with the DoD, and that Google and its parent company Alphabet commit not to develop military technologies and not to use the personal data they collect for military purposes."
Google terminated the contract.
At Microsoft and Amazon, thousands of employees protested against military and surveillance contracts.
Since then, the companies have gravitated toward helping the DoD, but tens of thousands across the U.S. tech sector are on U.S. civilians' side in wanting a human determined future for children, not an AI determined future.
Do not buy what this guy's selling. Do Not Obey In Advance.