Why the ‘pro-society’ approach to innovation is essential

Addiction Economy Thought for Today - this appears tangential, but drawing attention to the focus on technological possibility and money, not human needs, which is at the heart of new tech and all addiction economy companies.

The FT BTL commentators are scathing about Musk in the main, but couldn't resist sharing this from someone called Occam.

"The electricity consumption thing seems testament to the elegance and efficiency of human intelligence. If AI needs an entire power plant to do what a human brain can do on the calories in a sandwich that is quite amazing for us humans."

Hard to see how Musk squares his vision for AI being 'for the benefit of humanity' with the reality of half-cooked LLMs put on the market with seemingly zero thought for the social, economic, biological and psychological impacts and unintended consequences.

I am warming again to my rather tongue in cheek article in the Carnegie Council blog last year "Large language models don’t need a pause on research, they need an immediate product recall"

https://lnkd.in/erxTFvix

They are currently a duff product. Flick the switch, turn them off and allow them back on when they are fit for purpose. If they were an ordinary product, not software and didn't have the words 'AI' attached they wouldn't be allowed on the market at all.

Elon Musk in the FT

Elon Musk predicts AI will overtake human intelligence next year