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OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster

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Re: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster

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> I guess when you set up a board of directors tasked with not letting the company accidentally destroy the human race you set up a showdown when the board thinks the company will accidentally destroy the human race

https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/1727463238051229734

Re: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster

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> warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity,

> Given vast computing resources, the new model was able to solve certain mathematical problems, [..] Though only performing math on the level of grade-school students, acing such tests made researchers very optimistic about Q*’s future success, the source said.

I somehow expected a bit more.

Re: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster

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Just when I thought the ride was over.

The belief in what's in the letter could explain some things like how the board couldn't trust Sam to keep this "discovery" at bay, and how it could be better to implode the company than let it explore said technology.

Re: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster

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Two Sam Altman comments that seem to be referring to this same Q* discovery.

November 18 comment at APEC (just before the current drama) [1]:

> On a personal note, like four times now in the history of OpenAI, the most recent time was just in the last couple of weeks, I’ve gotten to be in the room when we pushed the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward

and a September 22 Tweet [2]

> sure 10x engineers are cool but damn those 10,000x engineer/researchers...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/live/ZFFvqRemDv8?si=T3DIxics7nPWala5...

[2] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1705302096168493502

Re: OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster

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post #5

Things are gonna be lit about 30 seconds after AGI is created. Gotta practice being "Goodlife" early in case that happens. :-)

I trust AGI more than any of the humans so far who have tried to argue they can wrangle it.
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