Cal Newport
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You did not hear him talking about what we're working on and why AI is important is because we're going to be able to find vulnerabilities in software that have been long hidden.
We're going to build the ultimate cybersecurity machine.
This was not discussed.
That's old fashioned stuff.
That's boring stuff.
That's stuff that we were worried at.
Even GPT-2 people are worried about that.
What we've been hearing about steadily was jobs are going to be automated.
We're going to have like whole creative industries wiped out.
We might have sentience coming and at the very least like AGI and these massive disruptions.
This is what they've been focusing on again and again.
And then their biggest, best model, right?
Their newest, greatest, bestest model that they train forever and use all the electricity.
What did they say about it?
None of those things.
They didn't talk about any of the things they said the key to AI was, the things they were afraid of, the things they were excited about.
Instead, they went back and talked about a boring parochial old feature that has been an issue that nerdy security researchers have been talking about for a half decade now.
That to me is, if I was an investor, I would say, take off your like Greek helmet cosplay mythos is coming to destroy.
Hold on a second.
Is this better at automating jobs?