According to this video Meta is offering $100M to senior OpenAI talent to join them:
https://youtu.be/QdetlcfGNr0?si=nLOY3tsJ8Y9LVJtx
Those figures are not staggering in the world of entertainment. Professional Athletics have toyed with those figures before. However, Matt is wondering how that strategy will play out for Meta. If someone did say yes to the offer then what happens next? How might the approach pan out?
All of this raises even more questions.
Why all the competition in the AI landscape?
Is AI pushing more change on us than we realize?
Is it time to inspect the very bedrock of Business and Competition that we have all grown so accustomed to?
It is worth pondering.
Once you get past the obvious in regards to what happens when one company reaches major AI Milestones, then strange ground awaits.
One company reaches AGI in less than 6 months ... then what?
One company's AI out performs all other AI's by 50% then what?
What happens for the individuals of the winning company? How many individuals will be impacted such that that all might be worth $500M or more. What happens next?
To get there - how much of society's shared resources like electricity and water must be consumed? Will any of the absurd wealth be returned to the regions that made that success possible?
Up to now these questions are just the warm ups.
The more unnerving questions will be around AI and Robotics combined and enabled with self-advancing scientific capabilities. Then what?
These questions are worth exploring because there is very little time to acclimate once these capabilities emerge with each new advancement from one of the handful of top AI players. Look how fast education changed in mere months of ChatGPT being released. We need time to digest the new capabilities but the nature of the AI landscape is speed which denies the world time to process the impact of each new advancement from one of the frontier models. The rate of advancement is 30-300% every 6 weeks across the AI Industry. I realize this is tricky to measure but that is the last I heard and it seems reasonable.
Ok - that's enough for now. This was a warm up as the deeper issues with advanced AI such as AGI and Super Intelligence will be explored in following posts.
https://youtu.be/QdetlcfGNr0?si=nLOY3tsJ8Y9LVJtx
Those figures are not staggering in the world of entertainment. Professional Athletics have toyed with those figures before. However, Matt is wondering how that strategy will play out for Meta. If someone did say yes to the offer then what happens next? How might the approach pan out?
All of this raises even more questions.
Why all the competition in the AI landscape?
Is AI pushing more change on us than we realize?
Is it time to inspect the very bedrock of Business and Competition that we have all grown so accustomed to?
It is worth pondering.
Once you get past the obvious in regards to what happens when one company reaches major AI Milestones, then strange ground awaits.
One company reaches AGI in less than 6 months ... then what?
One company's AI out performs all other AI's by 50% then what?
What happens for the individuals of the winning company? How many individuals will be impacted such that that all might be worth $500M or more. What happens next?
To get there - how much of society's shared resources like electricity and water must be consumed? Will any of the absurd wealth be returned to the regions that made that success possible?
Up to now these questions are just the warm ups.
The more unnerving questions will be around AI and Robotics combined and enabled with self-advancing scientific capabilities. Then what?
These questions are worth exploring because there is very little time to acclimate once these capabilities emerge with each new advancement from one of the handful of top AI players. Look how fast education changed in mere months of ChatGPT being released. We need time to digest the new capabilities but the nature of the AI landscape is speed which denies the world time to process the impact of each new advancement from one of the frontier models. The rate of advancement is 30-300% every 6 weeks across the AI Industry. I realize this is tricky to measure but that is the last I heard and it seems reasonable.
Ok - that's enough for now. This was a warm up as the deeper issues with advanced AI such as AGI and Super Intelligence will be explored in following posts.