Jeff Dean: belief

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…Yeah. I mean, I think we are also going to use these systems a lot to check themselves, check other systems. Even as a human, it is easier to recognize something than to generate it. One thing I would say is if you expose the model's capabilities through an API or through a user interface that people interact with, I think then you have a level of control to understand how is it being used and put some boundaries on what it can do. And that I think is one of the tools in the arsenal of how do you make sure that what it's going to do is sort of acceptable by some set of standards you've set out in your mind? Yeah. I mean, I think the goal is to to empower people, but for the most part we should be mostly letting people do things with these systems that make sense and closing off as few parts of the space as we can. But yeah, if you let somebody take your thing and create a million evil software engineers, then that doesn't empower people because they're going to hurt others with a million evil software engineers. So I'm against that.…

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