Chilling insight from a colleague: current tech founders in AI space are relatively altruistic, but as field matures the business CEOs will take over and make it way more profit-oriented. Happened in several other fields. This might be the friendly good old days of AI.
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Not sure quite sure what you’re implying. BenevolentAI’s business model really incentivizes them to sell before they prove their basic premise (“machine learning on a text database can predict drug effectiveness well enough to improve on conventional drug discovery”).
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But then how did Elon Musk know with high enough confidence that both Tesla and SpaceX were sound ideas? Reusable rockets hadn't been "de-risked" in the way you're talking about, neither had EVs. So it appears that there is an info barrier between VCs and founders.
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Intrinsic interest. Elon, I presume, actually wants to go to Mars, enough so that he’s motivated to learn enough engineering to evaluate the prospects of the technology himself. He’s not simply skimming one pitch deck out of a thousand that crosses his desk.
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