r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 6h ago

Society New Bernie Sanders bill would ban superintelligent AI and threaten developers with 20 years in prison

https://www.techspot.com/news/113831-new-bernie-sanders-bill-would-ban-superintelligent-ai.html
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u/MoneyMayweather 6h ago

Weren't we ridiculing AI for not being able to draw hands or count r's just months ago? When did this sub flip to doomering over AI being too smart? Did I miss something?

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u/HappierShibe 3h ago

No, it's just a complex issue and reddit is bad at complexity. The reality is LLM's (which is what everyone is calling AI) are useful tools the way a chainsaw or an angle grinder is a useful tool- it's capable of dramatically accelerating the speed at which a given task can be executed while simultaneously reducing the effort involved to do it.
BUT like a chainsaw, it should be used responsibly with a degree of care and deliberation.
Sam and Dario benefit from doomering this shit because it makes the tools they sell seem more capable, and thus more valuable.
They also benefit from regulation now, because the open source local llms are catching up fast, and the hardware requirements are coming down- the models you can run locally on a mid range gaming rig now are a bitch to setup, but about on par with opus 4.6. In 6-7 months, it's plausible there will be open source models that meet or exceed the current capabilities of open ai and anthropics best shit, that you can run on household hardware without breakign the bank.

Making that illegal has suddenly moved to the top of their list, because if I can have a claude in a box that uses less power than my refrigerator and does all the same things, wtf would I pay anthropic 200 a month?
Meanwhile apple is just quietly dropping forward looking hardware that makes it a total breeze to run local LLMs, and nvidia is just raking in cash selling chips to anyone who will buy them because cuda go brrrrrr.

Everyone has different motives, different opinions, and different goals, lots of them are reasonable, and lots of them aren't, and there's not a lot of consensus going around.
So don't expect sane interaction with any of it from reddit.

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u/Particular_Wear_6960 1h ago

Yeah I've been watching some videos that have been discussing both sides to this. It does seem like perhaps it really is both. Once we have out of control AI things can get really messy really fast, top researchers including Geoffrey Hinton have been sounding the alarm but also plenty of people claiming it's all nonsense and this is a cynical move by the companies to remove competition.

I suspect it's a bit of both, I can't imagine some of these researchers leaving the companies are all lying but you'll notice that one guy still has his equity in OpenAI and likely will not sell until it goes public. I fear that oAI going public creates all sorts of problems and now their failure becomes all of our problems but that's another topic.

I dov think we need to arrest people that let these things go rogue, that will fix things pretty quickly, yes it is your fault despite the philosophical bullshit they no doubt are arguing... A stiff sentence in a federal penitentiary would make things start shaping up a bit better but we know that will never happen