alt Hacker NewsI quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
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We need emergency laws to stop all AI development work immediately. It will take us decades to make sure this technology can be made safe as we only have one chance.
We need a new rule that mandates every such "I am leaving <AI company> because of <concern>" post to disclose how much equity they have in the company and how much they have already cashed out. Easy to suddenly find a moral compass when you, your kids and their kids never have to worry about working for money again.
Mr Robinson if you are reading this – if you are truly concerned about AI safety share proof of donation of 100% of your OpenAI earnings and equity towards undoing the damage you have done to society during your time there.
Idk why anyone thinks there can be AGI and alignment, seems almost like an oxymoron to me.
"I believe that we need to look deeper than specific rules or new laws. We need to talk about culture.”
lol. Please tell me some abstract concept like one employee's view of "culture" should be the priority over "rules and laws."
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I think its pretty easy to solve these problems: Whenever an AI agent commits a crime, the CEO is held personally accountable, as if they'd committed it themselves.
Corporate culture grows from the top down. When you've got a sociopath for a CEO, the results are predictable.
Oh, you worked there for the last three and a half years and now you’re concerned? Cry me a river.
>“Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster,” he wrote.
This sounds more like an attempt at regulatory capture. Current AI systems aren't physical infrastructure that can just run away like a nuclear power plant, for example. At the end of the day, AI is still just software running on someone's hardware.
OpenAI is better off with less of these cultists around.
The LeCun article being posted at the same time as this is quite apt.
These "safety" people should have spent more time reading actual cybersecurity textbooks and less time reading EA forums and less wrong (or in Robinson's case, it appears, being policy wonks). Maybe then these labs wouldn't be totally incompetent.
The LLM cos leadership are all nutters
This smells more like guerilla advertising. These things are not getting more intelligent, they are still no smarter than a slime mold, we are just burning more power to make slim mold that eats tokens than yesterday
What I don't understand is what's the excuse for all the bad UIUX?
You try to go through files, and photos and the UI panics. You continue a conversation from your phone onto your computer and you lose part of the chat.
There are many more issues like this that are just so basic. You have bots that can attack governments but can't build a functional UI?
How many hours of ChatGPT does it take to implement a lock / consistency on a chat session so you don't overwrite it?
Buncha r*tards
“I believe there’s about a 50% chance we all die because of the development of smarter-than-human AI systems, and that our actions over the next two to 10 years will determine the outcome.”
There are a gargantuan number of extremely intelligent AI researchers, Turing Award winners, and the lab CEOs saying the same thing. They are the ones closest to understanding the technology.
Where there’s smoke there’s fire.