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Caricatured: Bloomberg News Trumpets OpenAI CEO’s Dismissal of ‘Forecast That AI Will Kill Us All’
NewsBusters ^ | 3/9/2023 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 03/09/2023 12:19:52 PM PST by JV3MRC

Bloomberg News caricatured concerns about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, and instead trumpeted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s utopian view, that reads like he took a page from the script of I, Robot (2004).

Bloomberg News ran a newsletter propping up Altman’s dystopian views: “The OpenAI CEO Disagrees With the Forecast That AI Will Kill Us All.” The newsletter outlandishly contrasted the “small” Silicon Valley faction that believes Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a “killer” in the making with the “crowd who thinks our AI future will be amazing — bringing about untold future capabilities, abundance and utopia.” As Bloomberg News described the current feud, AI critic Eliezer Yudkowsky represents the former and Altman represents the latter. Bloomberg linked out to a Dec. 26 tweet by Altman in which Altman suggested the benefits of AI outweigh the dangers: “there will be scary moments as we move towards [artificial general intelligence]-level systems, and significant disruptions, but the upsides can be so amazing that it’s well worth overcoming the great challenges to get there.” What could go wrong?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: ai; bloombergnews; dystopia; openai

1 posted on 03/09/2023 12:19:52 PM PST by JV3MRC
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2 posted on 03/09/2023 12:24:05 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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I endure Bloomberg on Pluto with morning coffee for a few minutes to see catch the mouthpieces vibe. I like the bald Brit but the stuffy Irish toad and the cackling Jewish American Princes get to be to much to take so I switch over to the Blaze.


3 posted on 03/09/2023 2:21:38 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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The dangers are real but so are the possible benefits.


4 posted on 05/08/2023 12:34:02 AM PDT by ganeemead (Ukraine/Zelensky: Adding an element of chutzpah to ordinary Nazism...)
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