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Why the open letter to ‘build AI for a better future’ falls flat
A new AI industry open letter, signed by OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and over 300 others, is not just short, but short on specifics and context.
The letter, started by venture capitalist Ron Conway and his firm SV Angel, has over 300 signatories including companies like OpenAI, Salesforce, Google, Meta and Microsoft. This is especially concerning at a moment when Google continues to be dragged for its Gemini fails; OpenAI’s nonprofit structure and AGI mission has come under fire again; and Anthropic’s new Claude 3 models are being hailed as having “near-human” abilities. In addition, I spoke with Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker today, who told me the letter struck her as “very odd,” as though it had asked ChatGPT “to generate platitudes.”
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