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Comment by johnwheeler

2 years ago

It’s funny as I’m watching the multimodal demo, the feature I’m hoping for the most is less alignment.

I think the crippling of GPT has made it so much less useful than it could be. I don’t know if Google would take a bigger chance with it being the second player and having to catch up but that would be one hell of a differentiator. Less policing. Maybe they could get away with it because they have data on what people search for anyway.

They could hold a bigger mirror up to society than Microsoft. Probably wishful thinking.

They definitely will not. Google will be much more on the side of over-alignment than OpenAI. It's smart business given the current cultural environment we are in, but it's also deeply ingrained in Google's culture. It's sort of a Blackstone's ratio, better that a hundred bad answers be given than that one offensive thing be said.

  • Every cultural environment, not just the current one, would demand some sort of alignment.

Musk's Grok AI is supposed to be this, although right now it's still vapourware.

  • Training an AI on 4chan isn't going to get you significant intelligence. You'll sure get a lot of pictures, though!

This PR video already has a lady talking about how they're avoiding any possibly "hurtful" output