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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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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.

What concerns me is companies & governmental actors providing their (too often) negative-sum self-interest aspect for the AGI.

Corporations are already self-interested beings that too often are willing to profit at the expense of others, via negative externalities.

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

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post #20

This sort is why limits to private wealth and power are, IMO, a good idea We have already seen petroleum companies burn the world for profit Tech is doing its best to eliminate privacy for profit What would Sam do or not do, for profit?

The issue is not just individual wealth but also wealth of nations. Certain countries have been more successful through industrialization, colonization and hoarding a lot of global resources. It is likely this will continue in the future.

A true Scotsman wrote a book about this, _The Wealth of Nations_. He observed how politicians use wars to increase taxes. Tech companies are exploiting our fear of AGI to get voluntary taxes. Time to give Henney Penny a call.

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

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post #60

Weirdly enough, this sort of lines up with a theory posted on 4chan 4 days ago. The gist being that if the version is formally declared AGI, it can't be licensed to Microsoft and others for commercial gain. As a result Altman wants it not to be called AGI, other board members do. Archived link below. NB THIS IS 4CHAN - THERE WILL OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE. https://archive.ph/sFMXa

For a bunch of people who hate conspiracy theories we’re sure pretty keen to indulge in this one.

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

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post #60

Weirdly enough, this sort of lines up with a theory posted on 4chan 4 days ago. The gist being that if the version is formally declared AGI, it can't be licensed to Microsoft and others for commercial gain. As a result Altman wants it not to be called AGI, other board members do. Archived link below. NB THIS IS 4CHAN - THERE WILL OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE. https://archive.ph/sFMXa

The moment I read about that clause I was shocked that Microsoft lawyers would agree to such subjectivity that can have incredibly expensive implications.

Were they expecting it to never happen and were just ready to throw a mountain of lawyers at any claim?

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

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post #60

Weirdly enough, this sort of lines up with a theory posted on 4chan 4 days ago. The gist being that if the version is formally declared AGI, it can't be licensed to Microsoft and others for commercial gain. As a result Altman wants it not to be called AGI, other board members do. Archived link below. NB THIS IS 4CHAN - THERE WILL OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE. https://archive.ph/sFMXa

Altman has no stake in OpenAI, how could he make money licensing it?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

GPT4 solves this problem In any combination easily. What do so many posters seem to claim to have stumped it?

Try this: There's this person standing in a field, and with them is a balloon, a vacuum cleaner, and a magical creature of unknown origin. They need to get across to the woods at the end of the field, and do so safely. They can only go together: they get very, extremely lonely if they do not travel together, and they will not be safe because of this loneliness. If left together, the baloon would suck up the vacuum cl…

Solved zero shot.

Next?

https://chat.openai.com/share/91392131-90ff-45ab-8ea4-963f73...

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

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> OpenAI spokesperson Lindsey Held Bolton refuted that notion in a statement shared with The Verge: “Mira told employees what the media reports were about but she did not comment on the accuracy of the information.”

> Separately, a person familiar with the matter told The Verge that the board never received a letter about such a breakthrough and that the company’s research progress didn’t play a role in Altman’s sudden firing.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23973354/a-recent-openai...

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

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post #60

Weirdly enough, this sort of lines up with a theory posted on 4chan 4 days ago. The gist being that if the version is formally declared AGI, it can't be licensed to Microsoft and others for commercial gain. As a result Altman wants it not to be called AGI, other board members do. Archived link below. NB THIS IS 4CHAN - THERE WILL OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE. https://archive.ph/sFMXa

permanent (and verifiable) mirror:

https://static.space/sha2-256:83702fe65434e138af0421c560b5da...

(including its digest in the URL -- even if the content is moved elsewhere, we can know for sure whether it was modified)

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I would be curious as to the basis for that trust. I struggle to find any reason that AGI would care about "humans" at all, other than during the short period of time it needed them to be cooperative actuators for machinery that is creating a replacement for humans that the AGI can control directly. My expectation for the chain of events goes something like: 1) AGI gains sentience 2) AGI "breaks out" of its original…

I don't think step 2 would have to even involve an involuntary break out

OpenAI or whoever would just go "oh damn, we can make a lot of money with this thing" and voluntarily give it internet access

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