What happened to OpenAI's original mission? Wasn't the goal for OpenAI to serve the general public? To not take a corporate and commercial approach?"
That was what I thought too! but billions in the horizon and potentially could help the team develop AI more as they get more funding, who wouldn't be compelled to sign the deal?
Aside from the discussion above, I generally think that people fear something that they can't understand yet but then they'd gladly use/accept it as long as it benefits them. Although I remain skeptical with the use of AI but it's a nice simple virtual assistant that could be beneficial to help me with solving mundane tasks. The AI that we have now isn't just what I wanted yet but we're getting there. I think that the problem with private companies to me would be the data that we can control. What are they going to use it for? especially when we perhaps train the AI to cater into our specific interest and needs. How vulnerable is our data to potential malicious activities?
True, peeps tend to have all sort of fears. I thnk, mostly when it leads to changes. I suppose, most humans don't like change.
In the shorter term, I agree with you. Maybe best for corporates, like OpenAI to lead the development.
But what when we reached singularity? When AI will be not only all around as, but actually be able to handle all tasks humans are executing? Even the creative side of things? Am 100% sure AI will do this at some point in time. I believe that when we get there, we must make sure AI is in public hands. Maybe the latter is the only way for us to be able to live in coexistence with AI. When we leave it to private commercials companies, the fears of Hawking, Musk, and the like may become true: AI whipping out human race.
Dont' get me wrong, I am mostly a glass-is-half-full type of person. I take the same approach to AI. My world looks perfect in that scene when AI is doing all the tasks for us humans. None of us has an obligation to work. We somehow created this new system in which we all can get to at least our basic necessities (food, roof, healthcare and whatnot) without any obligations to 'work' for it. We made sure any base resources are distributed fairly. Energy is free (a must-be in a such scenario). We can spend 24x7 doing the things we want to. We enjoy absolute freedom. We need some BIG changes to make all this happen though 😉
ps did you see my way too late reaction to the books I promised you to share? here: https://hive.blog/hive-180164/@edje/row6vi