Big AI labs build AGI internally while giving the public child-proof apps
Joscha Bach · This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI) · Apr 27, 2024 · at 1:27:38
Joscha Bach discusses corporate incentives around frontier AI development and platform guardrails on consumer tools.
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“In some sense, the big AI companies are incentivized and interested in building AGI internally, and giving everybody else a child-proof application.”
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