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Hi folks, welcome to today's AI briefing.
My name is Tom and thank you for joining me.
Today we're going to have a quick discussion
about the news that came out yesterday
from Anthropics co -founder where he
was explaining how there should be the potential
for a handbrake to be put on AI
development somewhat over the next couple of years
because he is concerned about the rate of
pace of development to a degree and at
the same time the fact that he reckons
in a couple of years time the AI
development industry will largely be or could potentially
be autonomous in terms of
the way that it develops its own models
and would no longer require human intervention and
they could self improve and so on and
so on and so on and so on.
Which to be honest doesn't sound
like that much of a surprise.
Not to me at least obviously the rate
of development and the rate of pace of
change that has been occurring in the AI
industry, it would make sense that they would
be able to have AI just be able
to run its own models effectively, build its
own models because we already know that what
was it 70 or 80 % of the
claw desktop, claw code app are written by
machines potentially by all of it these days.
The pace of AI evolution is thus
that if you're a company and you have
access to these frontier models before you even
release them, you would naturally build stuff using
your own machines.
Now does it mean that you need a
handbrake to be able to slow down the
development of AI and start
to think about the guardrails and the betting
that needs to go on inside of these
models to make them safer and more secure?
Do you think AI needs a bit of a handbrake?
I don't know if handbrake is quite the right term.
I feel like it needs to have the
guardrails in place, the safety.
There's obviously a lot of examples
of the harm that it can do.
Making sure those checks and balances are in
place and making sure that AI doesn't end
up taking over the world is probably a
good thing and that humans can still get
to interact in a way that humans like to interact.
At the same time,
evolution takes its course from a software engineering perspective.
Things you still need some semblance of grounding
and understanding as to what's going on. Will
AI end up taking over and building everything?
To a degree probably.
We're not far off.
At the same time, it still requires a
lot of human input, handholding and that type
of stuff at the moment.
Am I concerned about it from a software development perspective?
From a job perspective, it definitely makes life
interesting, but you have to stay ahead of the curve.
Can it replace everything and just build out
an industry by itself?
We shall see.
I don't know.
Let me know.
Send me a message.
Put something in the comments, whatever.
Let me know what you think.
What do you think about AI, handbrakes
and the guardrails that it needs to be
able to function safely and effectively?
I will be back soon.
Thank you for watching.
This has been the AI Briefing.
My name is Tom.
Good to see you.