Sam Altman: I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier

Posted by mfiguiere 5 hours ago

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Comment by sm-silversight 1 hour ago

100% getting ready to try and get congress to build them a regulatory moat. They were hoping those headline-incidents they staged would prompt a congressional hearing but our government is too inept right now to know its head from its ass much less do anything about AI

Comment by joegibbs 5 hours ago

Are there any US-China talks going on here? Not much good if Deepseek decides to overtake them. China would surely be willing to negotiate considering that they’re not immune to AI damage.

Comment by cma 2 hours ago

Xi is supposed to visit the White House soon and there are supposed to be AI talks.

Comment by dg2fgf 2 hours ago

They're not obligated to do anything.

Comment by joegibbs 2 hours ago

It’s not about whether they’re obligated, it’s whether they have something to lose by not making a deal. It worked with CFCs.

Comment by cyanydeez 5 hours ago

Or, get this, LLMs are sigmoidal and theyre all in the burn cash for fuckall progress.

Qwen3.8 is basically doing more with less and openai and anthropic built the equivelent of the American culture: all fat, little depth.

Comment by naveen99 2 hours ago

Reminds me of when the colleges went sat free. Pacing human intelligence at the high school level.

Comment by bitwize 4 hours ago

Sam: OK, Dario, you win. We're pacing the frontier. This is what you wanted.

Dario: All right, frontier is paced! From now on, AI moves forward at a rate WE decide!

[Kwindla Kramer bursts into the apartment]

Kramer: You guys might want to sit down for this. You know that Chinese place down on 4th? They got a model that's smoking you guys at SWE benchmarks!

[laughter, applause, slap bass intensifies]

Comment by kelseyfrog 3 hours ago

Never heard of verified slowdown?

Comment by siva7 1 hour ago

Thank god they've grown up and stop acting like dicks.

Comment by dghlsakjg 1 hour ago

I’m not nearly that generous with my opinion.

An alternate read is that the entrenched leaders want to slow down development of competitors.

If Dario or Sam A wants to slow down frontier model development because they believe there is an existential threat, they already have the power to do that single handedly.

If I discovered that I had accidentally invented a doomsday machine, I wouldn’t be furiously providing access to anyone with a credit card.

Comment by dg2fgf 2 hours ago

Tacit collusion.

We meet again my friend!

Comment by jgalt212 2 hours ago

book pitch:

On being sane in insane places: A tale from inside the marketing department of a frontier AI Lab.

Comment by aaron695 5 hours ago

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