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> To some extent, they may be right that open sourcing AGI would lead to too much danger. They claimed that about GPT-2 and used the claim to delay its release
by imjonse 3y ago
> To some extent, they may be right that open sourcing AGI would lead to too much danger.
They claimed that about GPT-2 and used the claim to delay its release.
- FeepingCreature 3y agoThey claimed that GPT-2 was probably not dangerous but they wanted to establish a culture of delaying possibly-dangerous releases early. Which, good on them!
- Jensson 3y agoDo you really think it is a coincidence that they started closing down around the time they went for-profit?
- FeepingCreature 3y agoNo, I think they started closing down and going for profit at the time they realized that GPT was going to be useful. Which sounds bad, but at the limit, useful and dangerous are the same continuum. As the kids say, OpenAI got "scale-pilled;" they realized that as they dumped more compute and more data onto those things, the network would just pick up more and discontinuous capabilities "on its own." <aisafety>That is the one thing we didn't want to happen.</aisafety> It's one thing to mess around with Starcraft or DotA and wow the gaming world, it's quite another to be riding the escalator to the eschaton.