Have LLMs Escaped Human Control?

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Empty LLM hype is everywhere, as the Valley has become more of a marketing machine than an innovation machine. Smart engineers at major tech companies are bemoaning the AI wars, citing technology that in reality often undermines the reliability and utility of their core products and a work culture that increasingly leads to burnout, eliminating colleagues and leaving those who remain saddled with more work – work that AI was theoretically supposed to be doing for them.

So, why do we keep driving toward further adoption? And what will that mean for our shared future?

In the first episode of the Future in Review podcast’s newest season, host Berit Anderson is back for a conversation with her father / boss / lifetime dinner-table debate partner Mark Anderson to discuss his belief that these error-addled machines are beginning to elude the control of their human puppeteers.

Mark is the chair and founder of Future in Review, which The Economist calls “the best tech conference in the world”; CEO of machine-learning unicorn Pattern; and CEO of Strategic News Service, publisher of the SNS Global Report. In this week’s episode, Berit and Mark talk about his latest GR and why he believes that LLMs like Claude, ChatGPT, and Llama are now beyond the control of the companies and individuals responsible for their creation.

They dive into the research and the reasoning behind Mark’s thinking, the implications for a world driven by uncontrollable – and demonstrably error-ridden – LLMs and how these major companies are currently thinking about bringing things back into the pale.

If your success depends on understanding what’s really happening with LLMs – and not just Sam Altman’s latest spurious claims – this episode is a must-watch. Tune in!


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