Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Aleph Alpha’s AI Explained: The Secret Sauce" video.

  1. I think investments into AI will continue in 2024 but hopefully investors use some judgement where to put the money. However, it's obvious that whatever company makes superior AI system is going to make a LOT of money. If you owned a publicly accessible AI that can produce better results than GPT-4, Microsoft and Google would be throwing money on you to offer buying your company. However, the AI must be available to public so that public and the potential buyers can evaluate it in ther own terms. (Being available to public doesn't need to mean free to use without paying anything. It's totally okay to ask for a reasonable payment, but you cannot make it overly expensive. It would be pretty straightforward to train a 500 billion weight network and run every customer with a server with multiple H100 cards but it would never be profitable. The magic is creating cheap enough AI, even if full blown AGI weren't invented during the next 5 years.)
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  2. I think AGI is going to happen within 10 years and the society at large is doing nothing to prepare for it. I think switching to UBI (universal basic income) is the only way forward and we should be already switching to it, because starting the process only after AGI is already taking over multiple areas of our life is probably going to be really painful.
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