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And even if local small-scale models turn out to be optimal, that wouldn't stop big business from using them. I'm not sure what "it" is being referred to with "I hope it collapses."

Conversely, there are way too many people who think that humans are magic and that it's impossible for AI to ever do .

I've long believed that there's a smooth spectrum between not-intelligent and human-intelligent. It's not a binary yes/no sort of thing. There's basic inert rocks at one end, and humans at the other, and everything else gets scattered at various points in between. So I think it's fine to discuss where exactly on that scale LLMs fall, and accept the possibility that they're moving in our direction.

I actually think public perception is not going to be that big a deal one way or the other. A lot of decisions about AI applications will be made by businessmen in boardrooms, and people will be presented with the results without necessarily even knowing that it's AI.

Those recent failures only come across as cracks for people who see AI as magic in the first place. What they're really cracks in is people's misperceptions about what AI can do.

Recent AI advances are still amazing and world-changing. People have been spoiled by science fiction, though, and are disappointed that it's not the person-in-a-robot-body kind of AI that they imagined they were being promised. Turns out we don't need to jump straight to that level to still get dramatic changes to society and the economy out of it.

I get strong "everything is amazing and nobody is happy" vibes from this sort of thing.

It's the "make some people non-white" kludge that's the specific problem being discussed here.

The training data skewing white is a different problem, but IMO not as big of one. The solution is simple, as I've discovered over many months of using local image generators. Let the user specify what exactly they want.

It's not the training data that's the problem here.

The term "AI" has a much broader meaning and use than the sci-fi "thinking machine" that people are interpeting it as. The term has been in use by scientists for many decades already and these generative image programs and LLMs definitely fit within it.

You are likely thinking of AGI, or artificial general intelligence. We don't have those yet, but these things aren't intended to be AGI so that's to be expected.

I didn't say it'd work great. I'm talking about what's legally possible to do.

The US federal government is in many ways prevented from doing the right things by the details of its constitution. Even when the Supreme Court is genuinely following it, there's a bunch of stuff in there that lets individual states do crazy stupid things that the federal government can't really stop. So even given the powers that OP has given me in this scenario there's some big limits to what can be done. If he was to give me the ability to amend the constitution or control the state governments I'd be able to do a lot more.

And even if it was Google, these companies aren't magic. Once there's a proof of concept out there that something like this can be done other companies will dump resources into catching up with it. Cue the famous "we have no moat" memo.

Gun control wouldn't be my top priority in that case, but when I got around to it I'd put a ton of restrictions on interstate commerce related to guns and removing laws that may be preventing states from passing regulations on them. I'd be using my mind control to force the Supreme Court to interpret "well-regulated militia" in a sane way, so those states will then be able to put the brakes on if they want.

I don't think there's a lot that the American federal government can do to directly ban most kinds of firearms, based on how their constitution is set up, but stopping the large scale flow of guns (and ammo) into states that don't want them should go a long way to curbing the problem for them.

That's not enough support to be able to handle the gun control question. The supreme court is the real key. In theory it should be possible to pass sane gun control laws but over the years the supreme court has bent itself into pretzels trying to interpret any random yahoo with an AR-15 as being a "well-regulated militia."

You'd need to gut the car completely and rebuild it, it would be more work than starting from scratch.