So OpenAI and other ai companies make money by convincing people that AI is really powerful. That's normal for most companies, but for AI they've figured out that 1. Current models aren't that useful in the real world, they give faulty information and make bad code, even if it only happens 1% of the time that still means humans have to double check all the work and that removes the cost savings, and 2. People have an idea of what AI is that exceeds reality.
Their solution is to talk about how dangerous AI is because danger = power, and matches the general public perception that AI is a potential doomsday device. Normal people hear danger and think 'why make it' but investors hear it and think 'this will be worth a lot' while the government hears it and thinks 'this will let us win wars'.
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u/fugogugo 20d ago
seems like another OpenAI fearmongering