Comment by jawiggins
15 days ago
I hope all the people very concerned about AI safety are cheering this one. The best guard against one AI swarm taking over is having multiple adversarial orgs all with similarly advanced AI swarms.
I wonder if any of the AI safety people will begin encouraging AI researchers to swap jobs to work at a failing lab in order to keep them all extremely competitive with one another.
This is only an improvement if Gemini has made progress on alignment science. Otherwise, we end up with 2 sources of swarms on the loose instead of 1.
I think we’re past the point where making the best model guarantees company success.
At this point a lot of stuff happens at the product level.
OpenAI and anthropic have distribution and data advantages now that are hard to replicate.
Yeah I totally agree. And domain-specific models for say, high frequency trading, still beat the foundation models. I was never a doomer.
MAD: not just for nuclear proliferation anymore
now everything is a dual use technology.