{"id":109,"date":"2024-08-04T09:01:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T09:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/08\/04\/openais-sam-altman-is-becoming-one-of-the-most-powerful-people-on-earth-we-should-be-very-afraid\/"},"modified":"2024-08-04T09:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T09:01:58","slug":"openais-sam-altman-is-becoming-one-of-the-most-powerful-people-on-earth-we-should-be-very-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/08\/04\/openais-sam-altman-is-becoming-one-of-the-most-powerful-people-on-earth-we-should-be-very-afraid\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Aside from the corrupting influence of power and money, there is a deep technical issue, too: large language models (the core technique of generative AI) invented by Google and made famous by Altman\u2019s company, are unlikely ever to be safe. They are recalcitrant, and opaque by nature \u2013 so-called \u201cblack boxes\u201d that we can never fully rein in. The statistical techniques that drive them can do some amazing things, like speed up computer programming and create plausible-sounding interactive characters in the style of deceased loved ones or historical figures. But such black boxes have never been reliable, and as such they are a poor basis for AI that we could trust with our lives and our infrastructure.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/aug\/03\/open-ai-sam-altman-chatgpt-gary-marcus-taming-silicon-valley\">www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/aug\/03\/open-ai-sam-altman-chatgpt-gary-marcus-taming-silicon-valley<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the corrupting influence of power and money, there is a deep technical issue, too: large language models (the core technique of generative AI) invented by Google and made famous by Altman\u2019s company, are unlikely ever to be safe. They are recalcitrant, and opaque by nature \u2013 so-called \u201cblack boxes\u201d that we can never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}