I picked Gemini as the service to recommend to friends (and to use for my own needs) because it is the only one whose leader publicly committed to a pause if the other leading labs pause and because it introduced a competitive LLM service (Gemini) only in response to other two labs’ getting traction in the market for LLM services, which is a sign (admittedly a weak one in itself) that they were delaying in bringing state-of-the-art AI to market.
IMHO, the single most effective thing anyone can do is to slow down “innovation” in AI since that gives humanity more time to try to solve super-alignment (and IMHO work on super-alignment can proceed effectively without access to powerful models).
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the quote you’re referring to is:
Interviewer: Some folks have advocated for a pause, to give regulation time to catch up, to give society time to adjust to some of these changes. In a perfect world, if you know that every other company, every country would pause, would you advocate for that?
Demis: I think so. [...]
I think it’s inaccurate to summarize this as “publicly committed to a pause if the other leading labs pause”.
I accept the correction. I wish there were some other LLM-based service I could recommend to friends, ideally one run by people who would prefer a decades-long pause on AI “progress” and who are only in the market to deprive the other services of revenue and to limit how much the other services can leverage their position as trusted sources of information to influence public opinion on the dangers of AI “progress”.
Another reason I trust Deep Mind more than the others is that Gemini lags Claude and OpenAI’s services in coding skill, a dangerous capability because over some (unknown) threshold of coding skill, a model will tend to become capable of effective recursive self-improvement.
I could easily change my belief here though especially by my getting more information about Deep Mind.
I picked Gemini as the service to recommend to friends (and to use for my own needs) because it is the only one whose leader publicly committed to a pause if the other leading labs pause and because it introduced a competitive LLM service (Gemini) only in response to other two labs’ getting traction in the market for LLM services, which is a sign (admittedly a weak one in itself) that they were delaying in bringing state-of-the-art AI to market.
IMHO, the single most effective thing anyone can do is to slow down “innovation” in AI since that gives humanity more time to try to solve super-alignment (and IMHO work on super-alignment can proceed effectively without access to powerful models).
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the quote you’re referring to is:
I think it’s inaccurate to summarize this as “publicly committed to a pause if the other leading labs pause”.
I accept the correction. I wish there were some other LLM-based service I could recommend to friends, ideally one run by people who would prefer a decades-long pause on AI “progress” and who are only in the market to deprive the other services of revenue and to limit how much the other services can leverage their position as trusted sources of information to influence public opinion on the dangers of AI “progress”.
Another reason I trust Deep Mind more than the others is that Gemini lags Claude and OpenAI’s services in coding skill, a dangerous capability because over some (unknown) threshold of coding skill, a model will tend to become capable of effective recursive self-improvement.
I could easily change my belief here though especially by my getting more information about Deep Mind.