They've been glazing the AI industry for a few years at least

It’s been irritating and frustrating to watch; gamers nexus is honestly a way better source these days - not to mention, imo they are unironically one of the absolute best investigative journalists out there at this point. They’ve broken a number of very deep-dive stories, some of which have turned into big deals in the wider news media landscape (see: Intel gen 13/14 CPUs).

Artificial superintelligence is a specific thing that doesn't exist yet. A ban on it would be a cautionary measure in case of future advancements. A ban on artificial intelligence writ large would arguably ban my high school project that played Tic-Tac-Toe optimally.

It's probably important to note that ASI (and its more conservative form, artificial general intelligence or AGI) are goals, which is to say that they describe the result and not the technology used to get there. LLMs are a specific technology that I'm pretty convinced will never achieve AGI, let alone ASI. Specific-purpose AI has been around for decades (e.g. Deep Blue, which was world-class at chess in the '90s), and LLMs aren't really any different; their specific purpose is completing sentences, though, and that tricks a lot of people into thinking that they can actually perform metacognition in the way that an AGI would.

Exactly, how do we ban a word that we just made up?

We have LLMs, SI doesn't exist, they are not even AI.

LLMs run a wide spectrum of types and capabilities already and most people don't even know the basics, but none of them are SI/AI.

Should be ban local open models? (They can do "forbidden things" like copy software. They also do a ton of useful stuff, cheaply.)

How about only government and corporate approved models with guardrails? (Think what they tell you, and sell your data? Pay forever!).

Asi is an actual industry term. I haven't read the article but it is possible they do mean the specific asi rather than agi.

Ed: If you read it they specifically mean asi not agi aka "ai" and they use the term ai and asi correctly throughout.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/sanders-proposes-20-year-prison-sentence-for-ai-devs-who-plow-ahead-with-artificial-superintelligence-plans-penalty-on-par-with-illegally-developing-rogue-nuclear-weapons

Marketing and newspeak.

It's the bullshit new terminology the Cheeto thought up with his half a braincell.

It's a phrase used to separate his cult from everyone else. It's like the linguistic equivalent of wearing an adult diaper or slapping a maxipad on your ear

Sounds like it.

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/26711806

They're calling for a ban on pushing forward with ASI, not a ban on LLMs.

Yes the former is slop and exists and the latter is science fiction and does not exist. AI companies especially Anthropic have been pushing a narrative, even though they know better that LLMs are on a path to becoming conscious and smarter than humans, because that would mean they really could eventually replace all human labor, which they have to do for the AI companies' insane valuations to make sense. Amodei has been scaremongering and crying wolf about sentient rogue super-ai being right around the corner as a marketing tactic. Well-meaning politicians, dissapointingly including Bernie, have fallen for it, because politicians don't understand tech enough to effectively legislate on it but try anyway. See also: trying to ban VPNs and making it illegal for 3d printers to be able to print gun parts.

Unless her legislation sets criteria for what is superintelligence, then no, there is no difference.

Now, how do we get the ones making the laws to listen to us and not the slick million dollar presentations and kickbacks of regulatory capture.

They are going to defend their moats, protect the big IPs while stealing the work of millions of individuals, kill privacy and personal compute in favor of a surveillance cloud... (to protect the children and their IP).

AI is more likely to destroy us via climate change than by going Skynet.

Lol. Terminator himself said it's in our nature to destroy ourselves!