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Mar 6 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
In this @60Minutes, Microsoft chairman Brad Smith says "its a screen its not a person."

Then why do you keep on misleading people as to the capabilities of your products?

Why did you endorse this manifesto by Sam Altman "planning for AGI and beyond"?
cbsnews.com/news/chatgpt-l…
They are SO incredibly manipulative it makes my blood boil. We see what you've been hyping up, who you put your $10B in, and what they say. Why do the people who create your product talk about how people are stochastic parrots as well?
And your proteges that you're putting $10B into keep on making this point, and then continues to talk about colonizing the cosmos, utopia and how in the next 5 years their tool will read legal documents and medical documents and understand them and such?
"In the next five years, computer programs that can think will read legal documents and give medical advice...in the decades after that, they will do almost everything, including making new scientific discoveries that will expand our concept of everything”
moores.samaltman.com
They mislead the public INTENTIONALLY and then tell people oh look its just a screen, not like we've been talking about it as "AGI" or "AI systems that are generally smarter than humans" or a god like machine that can do anything for anyone everywhere! No dummy its just a screen!
And the SAME chairman endorses this cult manifesto talking about so many fantastical things talking about these systems as soo close to something we've never seen that's going to solve all problems and bring utopia.

openai.com/blog/planning-…
That's how Microsoft continues to get away with this, because not enough people are paying attention. You have them endorsing these ridiculous things and giving BILLIONS to the org that is pushing such feverish hype, then they have the audacity to be like c'mon its just a thing.
I truly can't stand watching him speak. "A lifetime of science fiction." Also YOU. We wrote about this exact thing in our paper. Read section 5. Makes me so angry. So ANGRY.
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…
There is NO CREATURE. OMG I'm losing my mind here.
"We were able to fix the problem in 24 hours." So far everyone here is Microsoft. There's a story about a Microsoft product and everyone so far is a Microsoft executive. The media is supposed to put a check to power.
Cue race with China which Brad Smith brings up. Like clockwork.
This piece is missing @emilymbender's voice who wrote a whole peer reviewed paper on why this exact thing shouldn't be done, i.e., why an LLM based chatbot shouldn't be used as a search engine.
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

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