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Brian Merchant

Brian Merchant

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
122 total appearances

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Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

And so he reached out to Elon Musk and kind of mimicked this language and was able to sort of use that concern as a lightning rod to get some interest and power and momentum into AI in general.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

And then from there, it's hard to walk away from that narrative.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

You see that the more you talk about it, that it does affect investors.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

It does sort of compel people to pay attention.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

It does get headlines.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

And so I think it does sort of balloon on and on and out.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

So some of these guys, I think like Dario Amadei, I am sure he's legitimately concerned about all of this stuff.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

Is his marketing department aware that he can win a round of headlines by expressing that concern in the release of Mythos?

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

Of course they are.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

So they present every sort of white paper, every released or unreleased model, you know, with the same sort of level of gravity as though it were sort of, you know, a new set of promotional materials.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

And so it becomes difficult to distinguish between the two.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

But I would say it is yes and both.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

And now we're in this pickle where the AI industry can't really walk away from its promise that has attracted so much investment in the first place.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

They can't say, you know what, we're not going to automate all the jobs.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

Right.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

well, then what was that $30 billion for, right?

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

You know, so it really, we're sort of up on the brink and the precipice here.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

And I think Bradley was absolutely right.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

You know, it's not just the politicians, it's also the AI industry, you know, Meta and OpenAI and all these guys are bankrolling, you know, PACs right now to the tune of $100 million to sort of influence elections.

Prof G Markets
Violent Backlash: What the Sam Altman Attacks Signal for AI

They supported the moratorium to ban state-level AI lawmaking, so the very least they could do