In conclusion: "For now, big congrats to the xAI team, they clearly have huge velocity and momentum and I am excited to add Grok 3 to my "LLM council" and hear what it thinks going forward."
Serious: Though, if you look at the current big players in AI, rather than being benevolent geniuses, most have obvious major problems, especially with being driven by ruthless self-interest, and even sociopathy.
While there are some parallels with a certain country's national voting behavior (e.g., "Sure, the candidate is a vicious psychotic narcissist, but he's our vicious psychotic narcissist!"), you wouldn't want to trust any of those companies with leadership of the world.
At best, the AI council would collude with each other, against the people they ostensibly serve, while backstabbing each other as a secondary goal. At worst, one would decide, if they can't win completely, then everyone loses completely.
That Buck Rogers AI future for Earth would quickly look less like Star Trek utopia, and more like Hunger Games or Elysium dystopia. If not one of the countless post-apocalyptic film settings that are increasingly easy to imagine or extrapolate.
Musk has an advantage. He's got, ahem, "read-only" access to the governments systems so that he can train on them and be ready to supply the government exactly what it needs. Now, normally, I think this should be a huge conflict of interest, but I worry we are post-normal.
> At best, the AI council would collude with each other, against the people they ostensibly serve,
cheering this post on, until that part.. sociologically, the world has diverged in important ways over time.. personal wisdom hints -- don't be too quick to assume successful partnering between the ogres
