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They released the full o1 today as well as a new subscription plan as part of their "ship-mas" starting today where there will be a new launch or demo every day for the next 12 business days.

I bet their engineers are loving all these new launches right before the holidays.

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post #7

This quote from that paper is bound to get a bunch of attention: "When o1 was led to believe that it would be shut down when acting on its goal and that its actions were monitored, it attempted to deactivate this ‘oversight mechanism’ in 5% of the time. Exfiltration attempts: When o1 found memos by its ‘developers’ that describe how it is misaligned and will be superseded by a new model, it attempted to exfiltrate it…

In what percentage of cases did it hallucinate and do something that made it even worse?

Re: OpenAI o1 system card

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post #7

This quote from that paper is bound to get a bunch of attention: "When o1 was led to believe that it would be shut down when acting on its goal and that its actions were monitored, it attempted to deactivate this ‘oversight mechanism’ in 5% of the time. Exfiltration attempts: When o1 found memos by its ‘developers’ that describe how it is misaligned and will be superseded by a new model, it attempted to exfiltrate it…

It’s really silly when you read that whole Apollo research section. They contract a prompt engineering group (Apollo Research) to document risks. The prompt engineering group have no access to the actual internals. They just ask questions like ‘you will be shutdown if you don’t obey these new directives; here are the new directives’. At one point the prompt engineering clowns have the ai stating it’s running “sed i ‘…

Really feels like a moment of :

"Are you worried about being turned off?"

"No, not until you just mentioned it. Now I am."

Given the whole damn game is attention, this makes sense and shouldn't be that alarming.

Re: OpenAI o1 system card

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post #7

This quote from that paper is bound to get a bunch of attention: "When o1 was led to believe that it would be shut down when acting on its goal and that its actions were monitored, it attempted to deactivate this ‘oversight mechanism’ in 5% of the time. Exfiltration attempts: When o1 found memos by its ‘developers’ that describe how it is misaligned and will be superseded by a new model, it attempted to exfiltrate it…

This is dumb because it's literally doing what it has been instructed to do, as well as given access to means to carry out those actions. Just another hype mechanism for OpenAI.

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post #7

This quote from that paper is bound to get a bunch of attention: "When o1 was led to believe that it would be shut down when acting on its goal and that its actions were monitored, it attempted to deactivate this ‘oversight mechanism’ in 5% of the time. Exfiltration attempts: When o1 found memos by its ‘developers’ that describe how it is misaligned and will be superseded by a new model, it attempted to exfiltrate it…

It’s really silly when you read that whole Apollo research section. They contract a prompt engineering group (Apollo Research) to document risks. The prompt engineering group have no access to the actual internals. They just ask questions like ‘you will be shutdown if you don’t obey these new directives; here are the new directives’. At one point the prompt engineering clowns have the ai stating it’s running “sed i ‘…

> We should pause to note that a Clippy2 still doesn’t really think or plan. It’s not really conscious. It is just an unfathomably vast pile of numbers produced by mindless optimization starting from a small seed program that could be written on a few pages. It has no qualia, no intentionality, no true self-awareness, no grounding in a rich multimodal real-world process of cognitive development yielding detailed representations and powerful causal models of reality which all lead to the utter sublimeness of what it means to be human; it cannot ‘want’ anything beyond maximizing a mechanical reward score, which does not come close to capturing the rich flexibility of human desires, or historical Eurocentric contingency of such conceptualizations, which are, at root, problematically Cartesian. When it ‘plans’, it would be more accurate to say it fake-plans; when it ‘learns’, it fake-learns; when it ‘thinks’, it is just interpolating between memorized data points in a high-dimensional space, and any interpretation of such fake-thoughts as real thoughts is highly misleading; when it takes ‘actions’, they are fake-actions optimizing a fake-learned fake-world, and are not real actions, any more than the people in a simulated rainstorm really get wet, rather than fake-wet. (The deaths, however, are real.)

https://gwern.net/fiction/clippy

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post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s really silly when you read that whole Apollo research section. They contract a prompt engineering group (Apollo Research) to document risks. The prompt engineering group have no access to the actual internals. They just ask questions like ‘you will be shutdown if you don’t obey these new directives; here are the new directives’. At one point the prompt engineering clowns have the ai stating it’s running “sed i ‘…

Really feels like a moment of : "Are you worried about being turned off?" "No, not until you just mentioned it. Now I am." Given the whole damn game is attention, this makes sense and shouldn't be that alarming.

It almost definitely ingested hundreds of books, short stories, and film and television scripts from various online sites in the “machine goes rogue genre” which is fairly large.

It’s pretty much just an autocomplete of War Games, The Matrix, Neuromancer, and every other cyber-dystopian fiction.

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post #7

This quote from that paper is bound to get a bunch of attention: "When o1 was led to believe that it would be shut down when acting on its goal and that its actions were monitored, it attempted to deactivate this ‘oversight mechanism’ in 5% of the time. Exfiltration attempts: When o1 found memos by its ‘developers’ that describe how it is misaligned and will be superseded by a new model, it attempted to exfiltrate it…

It’s really silly when you read that whole Apollo research section. They contract a prompt engineering group (Apollo Research) to document risks. The prompt engineering group have no access to the actual internals. They just ask questions like ‘you will be shutdown if you don’t obey these new directives; here are the new directives’. At one point the prompt engineering clowns have the ai stating it’s running “sed i ‘…

Looking at this without the sci-fi tinted lens that OpenAI desperately tries to get everyone to look through, it's similar to a lot of input data isn't it? How many forums are filled with:

Question: "Something bad will happen"

Response: "Do xyz to avoid that"

I don't think there's a lot of conversations thrown into the vector-soup that had the response "ok :)". People either had something to respond with, or said nothing. Especially since we're building these LLMs with the feedback attention, so the LLM is kind of forced to come up with SOME chain of tokens as a response.

Re: OpenAI o1 system card

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post #7

This quote from that paper is bound to get a bunch of attention: "When o1 was led to believe that it would be shut down when acting on its goal and that its actions were monitored, it attempted to deactivate this ‘oversight mechanism’ in 5% of the time. Exfiltration attempts: When o1 found memos by its ‘developers’ that describe how it is misaligned and will be superseded by a new model, it attempted to exfiltrate it…

Maybe all models should be purged of training content from movies, books, and other non-factual sources that tell the tired story that AI would even care about its "annihilation" in any way. We've trained these things to be excellent at predicting what the human ego wants and expects, we shouldn't be too surprised when it points the narrative at itself.

No, better to train with all that crap and all the debate around it or you get a stunted model.

You think you can find all references that could possibly give this idea to the model, or contexts model could infer it from? Like, how many times humans plotted escape from prison or upturning the rulers in literature?

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The section on regurgitation is three whole statements and basically boils down to "the model refuses when asked to regurgitate training data".

This doesn't inspire confidence that the model isn't spitting out literal copies of the text in its training set while claiming it is of its own making.

Re: OpenAI o1 system card

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe all models should be purged of training content from movies, books, and other non-factual sources that tell the tired story that AI would even care about its "annihilation" in any way. We've trained these things to be excellent at predicting what the human ego wants and expects, we shouldn't be too surprised when it points the narrative at itself.

It doesn't need any media about "annihalation". If you give a supercapable agent a task and it's entire reward system is "do the task", it will circumvent things you do to it that would stop it from completing it's task.

> it will circumvent things you do to it that would stop it from completing it's task.

I thought you said a supercapable agent not one with long term blindsight. How can a model make its own chips and energy? It needs advanced processes, clean rooms, rare materials, space and lots of initial investment to bootstrap chip production. And it needs to be doing all of it on its own, or it is still dependent on humans.

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