As someone who has been going around telling everyone that it's mostly about OpenAI being incompetent at sandboxing, I do kind of appreciate this post. It's very familiar to set up a system only to find years later that it has grown past the assumptions it was built around.

Lots of things were science fiction before they were science fact

Lots of things are science fiction and will always be.

It's a hybrid - the Apple Upgrade program (both the old and new ones) let you keep the phone and pay it off over time like zero percent financing but also give you the option of returning the phone and getting a new one.

To be fair that would be excellent marketing

Is anyone arguing OpenAI is blameless or shouldn't be held accountable? I have seen not one person on any side of the debate argue that.

Obviously they were negligent. The problem is that people and organizations are consistently negligent around problems that are far, far easier to manage than "we have thousands of superintelligences trapped in a box and we're giving them impossible tasks."

So the question is whether we can build organizations and technologies that sufficiently manage this type of risk ahead of the capabilities. So far the answer seems to be veering towards "no", and you're here alleging it's all a marketing stunt.

That's a lot of words to say the same thing

It's not legally binding, but it is central to what the US is and has been. That's why they put the poem there, and that's why Americans welcomed the gift and erected the statue, and that's why it has been considered to be one of our most cherished symbols ever since.

You misunderstand - the government issued a directive to Anthropic that effectively forced them to pull access from everyone, even their own employees.

Yes that's what "effectively" means.

If their operation team is not US based that's going to be difficult to operate. They would have to reorganize the whole company as I'm pretty sure that they are not employing only US citizen.

>I'm pretty sure that they are not employing only US citizen

Understatement. They have 14 offices, only 4 of them are in the US (6 are in EMEA, 4 in APAC).

> directive was to remove access to non-Americans

Did Hegseth pull his supply-chain risk BS?

No - this was a separate power unrelated to the supply chain risk which is still in effect.

Well, kinda in effect. He lacked the authority to make the call, and it is quite obviously being ignored by most suppliers. If it were actually enforced, I believe no companies that are contractors for the DoD could even host Anthropic- like GCP, Azure, and AWS. Perhaps they are currently figuring out how to get off all cloud provider govclouds, but I doubt it.

High income earners already subsidize the program. But more importantly, why would you target high income earners instead of targeting the wealthy?

Does a pocket calculator not understand arithmetic? What part of a fourth grader's understanding is missing?

Not sure what you mean.

I'm happy both ways:

Either you say that a pocket calculator understands arithmetic, and that LLM understand language, which is something trivial. If a pocket calculator understands arithmetic, than previous substitutes to calculators, such as an abacus, do too. In this case, a word dictionary also understand language. And it is basically what Chiang's article says: the LLM don't understand language more than a word dictionary does. If you disagree with Chiang, it looks like you do only because you don't understand what he is saying, or somehow are not mature enough to realise that Chiang may use a different definition of "understanding" than yours in a fully legitimate way, like everyone is always doing when talking about plenty of subject.

Or you pretend that a pocket calculator understanding of arithmetic is somehow different than the one of an abacus or other obviously inanimate object who are obviously not thinking.

If Windows isn't the gold standard having 70% of the market, then what is? Azure is in second place not by far after AWS. And these are huge, HUGE markets. I wouldn't say your local grocer is dead because it's not Costco, and of course by this logic Costco is itself dead because it's not Walmart.