OpenAI's Sam Altman tells staff he's open to slowing down cutting-edge AI
OpenAI considers slowing advanced AI development, Sam Altman tells employees
At a company-wide meeting this week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees the ChatGPT maker is considering pacing its development of cutting-edge AI, possibly in coordination with other labs — though some may not agree to join. The shift comes as rivals race ahead and internal voices urge caution.
OpenAI is considering slowing down the development of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, and the ChatGPT maker's Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman is hoping other AI companies will do the same.
- reticulates
After eating his 65th hot dog, Joey Chestnut reassures Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest organizers he will stop at 66 to ensure they don’t run out of hot dogs
- an0malous
“I don’t have anything to deceive you on, of course I’m not deceiving you. I’m engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you? There’s no… no reason for me to do that.”
https://xcancel.com/cocktailpeanut/status/209733229184439951...
- saalweachter
"It's totally intentional that progress is slowing," Altman reassured investors.
- naveen99
what’s the long timeline ? 10 trillion parameters now. 100 trillion parameters in a decade ? 1 quadrillion parameters in a hundred years ?
Does the edge stop growing parameters ? Or what percentage of global investment goes to training and what percentage of global operations budget go to inference in 10 years, 100 years ?
- hgoel
Sam also said Astra was AGI and he's notoriously honest.
This is just their way of saying they're officially switching from providing AI to using the AI to compete with their customers, a la Navier-Stokes drama.
- int32_64
When the Chinese model drops that tops a paused Anthropic and OpenAI in all benchmarks how low will their valuations go?
- YesBox
<Not an AI researcher -- Just thinking out loud>
Perhaps it's getting more difficult to move the 'goal posts'?
- Train LLMs on texts -> OMG AI can write!
- Train LLMs on code -> OMG AI can code!
- Train LLMs on images -> OMG AI can generate images!
- Train LLMs on video -> OMG AI can generate videos!
- Train LLMs on math -> give free access to 100,000 researchers/scientists/mathematicians -> invest resources into Lean -> OMG AI can solve math problems!
I say 'goal posts' because that's a common argument, but the perspective that seems to not be considered is that the LLMs are doing the same thing over and over again in different domains while be fine-tuned by labeling and human review.
The emergent behavior argument is a separate consideration, but I can imagine an AI being given a list of words (a harness) that guides how it operates--not the other way around--and the difficult problem is narrowing down and filtering all the associations with the words/harness to properly align it.
And perhaps the recursive looping being discussed creates incredibly difficult (impossible) to predict behavior? If the AI could modify it's own harness, is that AGI? If we fully understood what happens in high dimensional space, and could predict the output of any combination of input tokens, then is it not AGI?
Or perhaps I just tell myself this to stop worrying about a future involving ASI (:
- copperx
This is the closest to an admission of failure you'll get from sama.