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Because this has become a pattern in OpenAI's MO. Take a very impressive research achievement (large LSTM on byte-level language modeling/GPT-2). present it in
by arugulum 7y ago
Because this has become a pattern in OpenAI's MO.
Take a very impressive research achievement (large LSTM on byte-level language modeling/GPT-2). present it in a hyperbolic manner ("we've discovered a single neuron that captures sentiment", "the full GPT-2 is too dangerous to release"). wait for the press to eat it up, and if the technical press calls them out on misleading claims, even better, because it'll get even more traction then. Wait for defenders to show up stating that the original research achievement was impressive. Make no effort to clarify misleading claims.
The misleading word here is "solve", which can have two meanings: to derive a solution for a Rubik's cube, or to manipulate a Rubik's cube into a solved state. The casual reader absolutely assumes the former (which also appears as a challenging, intellectual task), whereas the technical achievement here is the latter. But of course, a press released titled "Solving Rubik's Cube with a Robot Hand" sounds much more impressive than "Manipulating Rubik's Cube with a Robot Hand".
I say this as a person who has benefited from their great research output and models: please stop playing this terrible PR game. You do your research work a disservice by muddying the waters like this.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 7y ago> Because this has become a pattern in OpenAI's MO. I wonder if this is because it Elon Musk’s MO. It seems exaggeration and hyperbole is what he does.
- minhazm 7y agoElon Musk hasn't been involved in OpenAI for a while now.
- SEJeff 7y agoAnd landing rocket on boats before refitting and relaunching them into orbit, but yeah... totally hyperbole.
- OnlineGladiator 7y agoI think he's more likely referring to Elon Musk's predictions about Autopilot and Tesla. Elon Musk has been promising "full self-driving" capability for years now (by which I mean he has already missed his first public deadline by years). I also find The Boring Company to be a little overly ambitious, as well as many other public comments Musk has made over the years. I don't think there are many people saying Elon Musk hasn't done some absolutely amazing things. But he's famous for being late to deliver on just about everything, and some of his comments about self-driving cars are considered truly pie-in-the-sky by experts.
- EdSchouten 7y agoMore like a parabola, right?
- skybrian 7y ago"Too dangerous to release" itself seems like a somewhat misleading summary of OpenAI's position? Figuring out how to do AI research responsibly is a core part of their mission, not a PR game they're doing just to make headlines.
- chewxy 7y agoGPT2 had no LSTM