Co-founder of OpenAI thinks ChatGPT is too woke. And writing poems is "cognitive labor."

[highplainsdem]

Some thoughts from this techie who already has way too much influence, and could have more in an AI-driven future. And he says what AI will become by 2050 is "unimaginable."

Austin American-Statesman article on what Greg Brockman had to say at SXSW yesterday:

https://www.statesman.com/story/business/technology/2023/03/11/openai-founder-talks-chatgpt-dall-e-and-whats-next-for-artificial-intelligence-at-sxsw/69987320007/

Re the criticism from Elon Musk that ChatGPT is "too woke":

"It was a failure on our part. We were not fast enough to address biases in ChatGPT. We did not intend them to be there. But our goal really was to have a system that would be egalitarian but treat all the mainstream sites equally, and we actually have a lot of improvements on this over the past month."

Re AI and jobs:

Brockman said many people, including him, used to think robots and AI would come for our jobs, though he viewed it as more likely to start with physical labor. Now he thinks it will start more with knowledge-based jobs, ones in which we "didn't want human judgment in the first place," such as content moderation.

"We've made great strides on cognitive labor — think writing poems," Brockman said.

Think of the mentality of someone who believes we shouldn't have human judgment in content moderation. And who considers poetry just cognitive labor.

He sees AI as changing coding - AI will be writing the code - as well as entertainment and writing.

"If you think about today, where everyone watches the same TV show, and maybe people are on the last season of ‘Game of Thrones,’ ” he said. "But imagine if you could ask your AI to make it go a different way, and maybe even put yourself in there as a main character or something and having interactive experiences."

I'd like to think George R.R. Martin - and everyone involved with the TV series based on his work - would have some say in that. But considering how much intellectual property and art OpenAI's ChatGPT and its art AI DALL-E have ripped off (for which they're being sued), I doubt Brockman cares.

In case you're wondering what Brockman's background was before OpenAI - he was CTO, chief technology officer, of Stripe, which was largely funded by Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, and which focuses on marketing and processing payments online.

Not exactly the background you'd want for someone who expects to have a huge impact on our future. Though OpenAI is looking forward to how profitable it will be...and they think they're being terribly ethical because they've said they'll cap the return on investments for investors like Microsoft at only 100x the investment.

Microsoft has invested $10 billion, so their maximum return is limited to a trillion dollars. Just so you know they're not really motivated by profit...

Too damn many techie entrepreneurs have obviously agreed with Mark Zuckerberg's infamous "Move fast and break things" motto, and it's obvious from this article that Brockman is one of them.

But what he's trying to do could break our economy and our society in ways that will make the problems created by Facebook seem trivial by comparison.

[ymetca]

1. My unpaid job of being a "content provider" continues

If you somehow managed to get paid for that same function, well, good luck!

At some point an AI is going to tell us that the most efficient way to save our planet is to stop mass-producing crap nobody wants or needs, and give every person on the planet universal basic income, healthcare, etc. Something like Fully Automated Luxury Communism.

Then Thiel and all his techno-feudal lord pals will be desperately trying to unplug it.

You can't stop "wokeness", because it's other name is "enlightenment".

[emulatorloo]

2. Dunno about "woke" but apparently it lies about facts and gaslights users.

I know that from some of the articles you have posted. Thank you so much for staying on top of this, much appreciated.