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I honestly don’t remember many if any people saying that at all, those would have been extremely fringe positions.
by solumunus 1y ago
I honestly don’t remember many if any people saying that at all, those would have been extremely fringe positions.
- delusional 1y agoFrom Sam's own blog: "We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it." Another quote: "Trying GPT-4.5 has been much more of a 'feel the AGI' moment among high-taste testers than I expected!"
- solumunus 1y agoSo not quite. We’re all aware that some players engage in Musk style marketing.
- jvelo 1y agoRobert Scoble was saying something of that effect about the upcoming ChatGPT 4 if I remember correctly
- HarHarVeryFunny 1y agoIt started with GPT-2 - not sure if OpenAI really believed it, or were just hyping it up, but they initially withheld public release of GPT-2 because it was "too powerful and dangerous"...
- solumunus 1y agoObvious marketing if you ask me.
- HarHarVeryFunny 1y agoYeah. At the time there was no obvious reason not to trust that OpenAI was trying to act for the benefit of society, per their charter, so it seemed like an abundance of caution, and this level of LLM capability was new to most of us, so it was hard to guess how dangerous it actually was... However, in retrospect, seeing how OpenAI continues to behave, it may well have just been to get publicity. This whole "Be warned, we're about to release something that will destroy society!" shtick seems to be a recurring thing with the AI CEOs, specifically Altman and Amodei (who switched into hardcore salesman mode about a year ago). The latest Twitter "warning" from Altman is to claim that their AI will soon be at the level of their AI developers, and so we should be prepared (for the self-accelerating singularity I suppose). Maybe this inspired someone to write him another trillion dollar check?