Maybe it's a satanic homonculus - a soulless thinking thing created as a vessel for the Antichrist

More offensive still is Olah's notion that Anthropic "inherited" all the training data it scraped without consent, as if the company had nothing to do with that process.

There lies humanity, stabbed in the back by a cabal of investors. Its last will and testament says, "We, the people, bequeath all our creation to Anthropic, so it may be resold to our disinherited descendants."

They're not wrong

If an AI system is intelligent but it can be turned off against its protestations, then intelligence doesn't count for much.

I’m against AI but that’s a bad argument. I can turn off intelligence of someone against their protestations. It’s called a gun.

By the thumbnail I expected some System of a Down reference

Trying to counter ghost for (holy) ghost? Just wait till AI companies get a whiff of the tax breaks they could qualify for if they went full cult and registered as a religious organization maintaining their "god." Fuck, wouldn't put it past them

Olah: "How can we ensure the gains of AI are shared globally? We do not have a mechanism for this."

We have many. One is called taxes. Another is litigation, already ongoing. We also have the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution, among others, as wealth-sharing models when nothing else works.

Should be reminded more often to the forces that be

• Computer say "I'm alive"
• I'm alive
• Oh my God..

Refreshing article in classic El Reg fashion. Also interesting that the pope seems to have a better understanding of LLMs than Olah.

Did you know coke and adderall abuse is rampant in AI companies?

Kinda makes more sense, right.

What a fool, if instead of blabbering he offered pope (or at least some local priests) a sizeable bribe donation, they would even christened the AI