Because there’s no better marketing for a probabilistic (dumb) language model than the idea that it’s so powerful it needs to be regulated.
Just as Steve Jobs used to say when the media was constantly stoking fears about the power of personal computers in the 1980s—“you can just throw it out the window.”
Yet, he simultaneously took advantage of that media hysteria when signing off on what is considered the best commercial of all time- “1984 won’t be like 1984 because Apple”
Essentially what OpenAI is doing right now in Washington (ie. stoking the fear and also selling the solution).
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Just as Steve Jobs used to say when the media was constantly stoking fears about the power of personal computers in the 1980s—“you can just throw it out the window.”
Yet, he simultaneously took advantage of that media hysteria when signing off on what is considered the best commercial of all time- “1984 won’t be like 1984 because Apple”
Essentially what OpenAI is doing right now in Washington (ie. stoking the fear and also selling the solution).
The more things change, the more they stay the same.