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This is super cool and fun and will almost certainly be really bad for society in loads of different ways. From the descriptions of all the guardrails they're n

This is super cool and fun and will almost certainly be really bad for society in loads of different ways. From the descriptions of all the guardrails they're needing to put in it seems like they know it too.

bbor 1y ago
Glad to see someone is looking out for a forest, here. A diverse host of excuses have cropped up to explain away the anxiety AGI brings, and I totally understand why. Yet again, today we stare into the abyss. Sora 2 represents significant progress towards [AGI]. In keeping with OpenAI’s mission, it is important that humanity benefits from these models as they are developed. This seems like a good time to remind ourselves of the original OpenAI charter: https://web.archive.org/web/20230714043611/https://openai.com/charter https://web.archive.org/web/20230714043611/https://openai.co... I wonder how exactly they reconcile the quote above with "We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions"...
- nurettin 1y ago
  I am not for or against AGI, but why is there anxiety around it? Do people simply hear sales rhetoric and assume that it can exist and will be used in order to dominate their lives?
  - bbor 1y ago
    I'm not referencing sales rhetoric, I'm referencing scientific consensus. AGI will have the same kind of impact on our species as fire and electricity did. We stand at a crossroads between unimaginable success and enormous catastrophe...
    - nurettin 1y ago
      Well, good luck with that, hopefully it will learn to spell blueberry.
askl 1y ago
But think of all the 0 legitimate use cases for this technology.
- giancarlostoro 1y ago
  So being able to generate sign language videos for people who cannot hear is not a legitimate use case for AI videos? Or is your hate boner for AI just blinding you from useful applications?
  - 542458 1y ago
    Is there a reason that's superior to subtitles, which are already fairly easy to generate?
    - currymj 1y ago
      sign languages are completely different languages from spoken languages, with their own grammar etc. subtitles can work but it's basically a second language. perhaps comparable to many countries where people speak a dialect that's very different from the "standard" written language. this is why you sometimes have sign language interpreters at events, rather than just captions. there's not really a widely accepted written form of sign language.
      - fluoridation 1y ago
        >this is why you sometimes have sign language interpreters at events, rather than just captions. No, the reason is because a) it's in real time, and b) there's no screen to put the subtitles on. If it was possible to simply display subtitles on people's vision, that would be much more preferable, because writing is a form of communication more people are familiar with than sign language. For example, someone might not be deaf, but might still not be able to hear the audio, so a sign language interpreter would not help them at all, while closed captions would.
        1y ago

bbor 1y ago

Glad to see someone is looking out for a forest, here. A diverse host of excuses have cropped up to explain away the anxiety AGI brings, and I totally understand why. Yet again, today we stare into the abyss. Sora 2 represents significant progress towards [AGI]. In keeping with OpenAI’s mission, it is important that humanity benefits from these models as they are developed. This seems like a good time to remind ourselves of the original OpenAI charter: https://web.archive.org/web/20230714043611/https://openai.com/charter https://web.archive.org/web/20230714043611/https://openai.co... I wonder how exactly they reconcile the quote above with "We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions"...

nurettin 1y ago
I am not for or against AGI, but why is there anxiety around it? Do people simply hear sales rhetoric and assume that it can exist and will be used in order to dominate their lives?
- bbor 1y ago
  I'm not referencing sales rhetoric, I'm referencing scientific consensus. AGI will have the same kind of impact on our species as fire and electricity did. We stand at a crossroads between unimaginable success and enormous catastrophe...
  - nurettin 1y ago
    Well, good luck with that, hopefully it will learn to spell blueberry.

askl 1y ago

But think of all the 0 legitimate use cases for this technology.

giancarlostoro 1y ago
So being able to generate sign language videos for people who cannot hear is not a legitimate use case for AI videos? Or is your hate boner for AI just blinding you from useful applications?
- 542458 1y ago
  Is there a reason that's superior to subtitles, which are already fairly easy to generate?
  - currymj 1y ago
    sign languages are completely different languages from spoken languages, with their own grammar etc. subtitles can work but it's basically a second language. perhaps comparable to many countries where people speak a dialect that's very different from the "standard" written language. this is why you sometimes have sign language interpreters at events, rather than just captions. there's not really a widely accepted written form of sign language.
    - fluoridation 1y ago
      >this is why you sometimes have sign language interpreters at events, rather than just captions. No, the reason is because a) it's in real time, and b) there's no screen to put the subtitles on. If it was possible to simply display subtitles on people's vision, that would be much more preferable, because writing is a form of communication more people are familiar with than sign language. For example, someone might not be deaf, but might still not be able to hear the audio, so a sign language interpreter would not help them at all, while closed captions would.
      - 1y ago