Elon Musk says

“The best of the available alternatives that I can come up with [regarding A.I.], and maybe somebody else can come up with a better approach or a better outcome, is that we achieve democratization of A.I. technology. Meaning that no one company or small set of individuals has control over advanced A.I. technology. That’s very dangerous, it could also get stolen by somebody bad. Like some evil dictator. A country could send their intelligence agency to go steal it and gain control. It just becomes a very unstable situation if you have any incredibly powerful A.I. You just don’t know whose going to control that.”

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“If we can effectively merge with A.I. by improving the neural link between the cortex and your digital extension of yourself - which already exists, it just has a bandwidth issue - then effectively you become an A.I. human symbiote. And if that then is widespread, [where] anyone who wants it can have it, then we solve the control problem as well. We don’t have to worry about some evil dictator A.I., because we are the A.I. collectively. That seems to be the best outcome I can think of.”

“If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be. Vastly more risk than North Korea.”

“Stability AI puts the power back into the hands of developer communities and opens the door for groundbreaking new applications. An independent entity in this space supporting these communities can create real value and change.”

—Emad Mostaque

“I think if AI power is widely distributed then, and there's not, say, one entity that has some super AI that is a million times smarter than anything else, if instead the AI power is broadly distributed and, to the degree that we can link AI power to each individual's will, like you'd have your AI agent, everyone would have their AI agent, and then if somebody did try and do something really terrible then the collective will of others could overcome that bad actor, which you can't do if there's one AI that's a million times better than everyone else.”

“I think AI is something that is risky at the civilization level, not merely at the individual risk level, and that's why it really demands a lot of safety research.”

“Intelligence is about to be pushed out to the edge. So every person, country, and culture has their own constantly updated models, so you’ll have your own model of all your knowledge across modalities. And you can run it on your local hardware without access to the internet.”

—Emad Mostaque

“These new models are generative search engines. Don’t need to search for images, code any more, what comes next..”

—Emad Mostaque

“The goal of OpenAI is really just to take the set of actions that are most likely to improve the positive futures. Like, if you can think of like the future as a set of probability streams that branch out and then converge; collapse down to a particular event and then branch out again and there's a certain set of probabilities associated with the future being positive and a different type flavours of that and at OpenAI we want to try to guide… do whatever we can to increase the probability of the good futures happening.”

“AI is a rare case where I think we need to be proactive in regulation than be reactive.”

“AI will be the best or worst thing ever for humanity.”

“I am not normally an advocate of regulation and oversight… I think one should generally err on the side of minimizing those things… but this is a case where you have a very serious danger to the public.”

“Hope we’re not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence. Unfortunately, that is increasingly probable.”

“The software engineering aspect of deep learning repos I've been watching closely is how they store, catalogue, override, manage and plumb hyperparameter configs. Have come to dislike argparse, YAMLs (too inflexible), and fully enumerated kwargs on classes/defs.”

—Andrej Karpathy

“OpenAI seems to be going really well. We have a really talented team that are working hard. OpenAI is structured as a non-profit, but many non-profits do not have a sense of urgency… but OpenAI does. I think people really believe in the mission, I think it’s important. It’s about minimizing the risk of existential harm in the future…”

“They will be endowed with agency over originally human APIs: screen+keyboard/mouse in the digital realm and humanoid bodies in the physical realm. And gradually they will swap us out.”

—Andrej Karpathy