The battle over open AI research intensifies at the AI Safety Summit. On one side sits advocates such as Meta's Yann LeCun, on the other, former Google AI Researching Geoff Hinton, etc.
LeCun accuses the anti-open AI team of being in the pocket of corporations.
Yann LeCun writes (and I agree):
"Now about open source: your campaign is going to have the exact opposite effect of what you seek. In a future where AI systems are poised to constitute the repository of all human knowledge and culture, we *need* the platforms to be open source and freely available so that everyone can contribute to them. Openness is the only way to make AI platforms reflect the entirety of human knowledge and culture. This requires that contributions to those platforms be crowd-sourced, a bit like Wikipedia. That won't work unless the platforms are open.
"The alternative, which will *inevitably* happen if open source AI is regulated out of existence, is that a small number of companies from the West Coast of the US and China will control AI platform and hence control people's entire digital diet. What does that mean for democracy? What does that mean for cultural diversity? *THIS* is what keeps me up at night."
https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1718670073391378694
The _real_ doomsday scenario with AI is that it is monopolized by the 1% and consolidates their power vs everyone else.
