Evil and I use it, won’t you be empowering me? But any of the work that we do will be available to everyone. If you take it and repurpose it you don’t have to share that. Anything the group develops will be available to everyone. Levy: Couldn’t your stuff in OpenAI surpass human intelligence?Īltman: I expect that it will, but it will just be open source and useable by everyone instead of useable by, say, just Google. Because we are not a for-profit company, like a Google, we can focus not on trying to enrich our shareholders, but what we believe is the actual best thing for the future of humanity. Īltman: We think the best way AI can develop is if it’s about individual empowerment and making humans better, and made freely available to everyone, not a single entity that is a million times more powerful than any human. And to the degree that you can tie it to an extension of individual human will, that is also good. There’s two schools of thought?-?do you want many AIs, or a small number of AIs? We think probably many is good. Musk: Philosophically there’s an important element here: we want AI to be widespread. Some of the top names in Silicon Valley have just announced a new organization, OpenAI, dedicated to “advancing digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole…as broadly and evenly distributed as possible.” Co-chairs Elon Musk and Sam Altman talk to Steven Levy: Within a week, both hemispheres were blown to very predictable smithereens. The only downside was that if you didn’t build it exactly right, its usual failure mode was to detonate on the workbench in an uncontrolled hyper-reaction that would blow the entire hemisphere to smithereens.Īnd so the intellectual and financial elites declared victory – no one country could monopolize atomic weapons now – and sent step-by-step guides to building a Model T nuke to every household in the world. In fact, once you understood the principles you could build one out of parts from a Model T engine. They got their physicists working overtime and discovered a new type of nuke that required no uranium at all. The world’s uranium sources were few enough that a single nation or coalition could get a monopoly upon them the specter of atomic despotism seemed more worrying than ever.
Their efforts bore fruit, and they learned a lot about nuclear fission in particular, they learned that uranium was a necessary raw material. So in 1920, these elites pooled their resources and made their own Manhattan Project. Such a situation would be the end of human freedom and progress. It would be unstoppable in battle and might rule the world with an iron fist.
They would worry about what might happen when the first nation – let’s say America – got the Bomb. It was a nice thought.īut imagine that in the 1910s and 1920s, some elites had started thinking really seriously along Wellsian lines. Wells believed the coming atomic bombs would be so deadly that we would inevitably create a utopian one-world government to prevent them from ever being used. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands…before the last war began it was a matter of common knowledge that a man could carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half a city
#Infinifactory too hard free#
Wells’ 1914 sci-fi book The World Set Free did a pretty good job predicting nuclear weapons:
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