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michaelthwan_ai OP t1_jcxsd0x wrote

Reply to comment by egoistpizza in [P] searchGPT - a bing-like LLM-based Grounded Search Engine (with Demo, github) by michaelthwan_ai

Thank you for your comprehensive input.
- I have mixed feeling about opening/closing the technology. There are pros/cons to it. For example, we, especially people in this field have a strong curiosity about how giant technology solves their problems (like chatgpt). Therefore open-sourcing them will bring us rapid development in related fields (like the current AI development). However, I also understand that, malicious usage is also highly possible when doing so. For example, switching the reward function from chatgpt model from positive to negative may make a safe AI into the worst AI ever.
- Humans seem to not be able to stop technological advancement. Those technologies will come sooner or later.
- Yes I agree to preserve our rights today and the society should carefully think about how to deal with this unavoidable (AI-powered) future.

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egoistpizza t1_jcy1jxt wrote

Thanks for your reply. If technological developments are opened to the masses, as you said, the speed of development will jump. We're talking about a much higher rate of technological development than a closed development environment can provide. It will never reach its potential for development under the monopoly of companies that use technology and science like a cow for profit.

On the other hand, the current developments and potentials under the monopoly of these companies are more conducive to malicious use. The company, which, like OpenAI, was built on the axis of control and good purposes in the development of artificial intelligence, has now become Microsoft's cow. Microsoft, which fired the ethics team before the introduction of GPT-4, and similar companies prefer to use artificial intelligence to gain power and worship power in unethical ways from the very beginning.

Rather than protecting the public against a potential that could be used for malicious purposes, these companies may use this potential to serve "their" unethical purposes for their own profit. In this case, they turn into "bad guys" in order to prevent malicious people from using the technological potential for their own benefit.

Artificial intelligence and technological development potential should not be monopolized by anyone. In this way, we are responsible for raising awareness ourselves and raising the awareness of the masses by doing our part. The current hype should not blind people.

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