It feels strange hearing Sam say that their products are released whenever the feel as though ‘society is ready.’ Perhaps they can afford to do that now, but I cannot help but think that market dynamics will inevitably create strong incentives for race conditions very quickly (perhaps it is already happening) which will make following this approach pretty hard. I know he later says that he hopes for competition in the AI-space until the point of AGI, but I don’t see how he balances the knowledge of extreme competition with the hope that society is prepared for the technologies they release; it seems that even current models, which appear to be far from the capabilities of AGI, are already transformative.
It feels strange hearing Sam say that their products are released whenever the feel as though ‘society is ready.’ Perhaps they can afford to do that now, but I cannot help but think that market dynamics will inevitably create strong incentives for race conditions very quickly (perhaps it is already happening) which will make following this approach pretty hard. I know he later says that he hopes for competition in the AI-space until the point of AGI, but I don’t see how he balances the knowledge of extreme competition with the hope that society is prepared for the technologies they release; it seems that even current models, which appear to be far from the capabilities of AGI, are already transformative.