damodei

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   by damodei 8y ago

   It's actually incorrect that AZ got better results that AGZ with less compute. The graph shows the large AGZ, which somewhat exceeded the rating of both the small AGZ and AZ. AZ did slightly outperform the small AGZ, but did so w
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   by damodei 8y ago

   I'm the lead author, and I can only speak for myself, but what drove me to spend a lot of time on this post is a sense of caution. I think AI is likely to have amazing positive implications for society, but it also has negative implic
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   by damodei 8y ago

   We had in mind less a mechanical trigger ("project X is within Y years of AGI, let's drop everything and join them"), and more a broad commitment to avoid races, along with an invitation to other organizations to build relati
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   by damodei 9y ago

   This is Dario Amodei, head of the OpenAI safety team. We are devoting a substantial fraction of the organization’s bandwidth to safety, both on the side of technical research (where we have several people currently working on it full-time,