Nathan Lambert: belief

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…Making it open helps with that. As accessible as possible, as open as possible, yeah. … In my read of the last few years is that more openness would help the AI ecosystem in terms of having more people understand what’s going on. Rather that’s researchers from non-AI fields to governments to everything. It doesn’t mean that openness will always be the answer. I think then it’ll reassess of what is the biggest problem facing AI and tack on a different angle to the wild ride that we’re on. And for me, just from even the user experience, anytime you have like Aparthi said, the aha moments, the magic, seeing the reasoning, the chain of thought, it’s like there’s something really just fundamentally beautiful about that. It’s putting a mirror to ourselves and seeing like, oh, shit. It is solving intelligence as the cliche goal of these companies is, and you get to understand why we humans are special. The intelligence within us is special. And for now also why we’re special in terms of we seem to be conscious and the AI systems for now, and we get to explore that mystery, so it’s just really cool to get to explore these questions that I don’t think I would’ve never imagined would be even possible back when just watching with excitement, deep blue beat Kasparov, I wouldn’t have ever thought this kind of AI would be possible in my lifetime. This is really feels like AI.…

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