Is it even possible to shut it down?
The Pandora’s Box is open. It’s over.
unless you plan to never update again
A software update collaborated on by Microsoft, Apple + countless of volunteer groups managing various other distributions?
The cat really is out of the bag. You could probably make it a death penalty in the whole world and some people would still use it secretly.
Once things like this run on consumer hardware, I think it's already too late to pull it down fully. You could regulate it though and probably have a better chance of limiting the damages, not sure an outright ban could even have the effect you want with a ban.
yes you won't get people that won't ever update, but you'll get the overwhelming majority
and the hardware the never-updaters use will eventually fail and won't be able to be replaced
also: ban the release of new "open" models, they will slowly become out of date and useless
combine these, and the problem will solve itself over time
Models released today are already useful for a bunch of stuff, maybe over the course of 100 year they could be considered "out of date", but they don't exactly bitrot by themselves because they sit on a disk, not sure why'd they suddenly "expire" or whatever you try to hint at.
And even over the course of 100 year, people will continue the machine learning science, regardless if it's legal or not, the potential benefits (for a select few) seems to be too good for people to ignore, which is why the current bubble is happening in the first place.
> And even over the course of 100 year, people will continue the machine learning science
the weak point is big tech: without their massive spending the entire ecosystem will collapse
so that's what we target, politically, legally, technologically and regulatory
we (humanity) only need to succeed in one of these domains once, then their business model becomes nonviable
once you cut off the snake's head, the body will die
the boosters in search of a quick buck will then move onto the next thing (probably "quantum")
agreement isn't needed
its success sows the seeds of its own destruction, if it starts eating the middle class: politicians in each and every country that want to remain electable will move towards this position independently of each other
> and under-estimate how far people are willing to go to make anything survive even when lots of people want that thing to die.
the structural funding is such that all you need to do is chop off the funding from big tech
the nerd in their basement with their 2023 macbook is irrelevant
The "system" isn't a thing, but more like running apps, some run on servers, other consumer hardware. And the parts that run on consumer hardware will be around even if 99% of the current hyped up ecosystem dies overnight, people won't suddenly stop trying to run these things locally.
I get the general "too many variables" argument, but the idea that humans have no means of stopping any of these apps/systems/algorithms/etc if they get "out of control" (a farce in itself as it's a chat bot) is ridiculous.
It's very interesting to see how badly people want to be living in and being an active participant in a sci-fi flick. I think that's far more concerning than the AI itself.
Yes. Look at how much trouble we have now with distributed denial of service attacks.
Go re-read "Daemon" and "Freedom™", by Daniel Suarez (2006). That AI is dumber than what we have now.
LLM code already runs on millions of servers and other devices, across thousands of racks, hundreds of data centers, distributed across the globe under dozens of different governments, etc. The open source models are globally distributed and impossible to delete. The underlying math is public domain for anyone to read.
The power switch is still king, even if it's millions of power switches versus one.