This is a paywalled text but you don't actually need to read more than the headline and that ridiculous quote:
"The company’s goal to be carbon negative by 2030 is harder to reach, but President Brad Smith says the good AI can do for the world will outweigh its environmental impact."
Kevin Roose so desperately wants to live in the futures tech companies are selling that he’ll eagerly do their PR for them and buy into whatever illusions of intelligence they put in front of him so he can trick himself into believing they’ll actually be realized this time.
#AI#GenerativeAI#OpenAI#AISafety#AIEthics: "For months, OpenAI has been losing employees who care deeply about making sure AI is safe. Now, the company is positively hemorrhaging them.
Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike announced their departures from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, on Tuesday. They were the leaders of the company’s superalignment team — the team tasked with ensuring that AI stays aligned with the goals of its makers, rather than acting unpredictably and harming humanity.
They’re not the only ones who’ve left. Since last November — when OpenAI’s board tried to fire CEO Sam Altman only to see him quickly claw his way back to power — at least five more of the company’s most safety-conscious employees have either quit or been pushed out."
“Facts are irrelevant to the truth of the experience OpenAI sells, which is grounded in the fantasy of having someone you can always talk to and boss around without having to worry about managing their performance. The chatbot performs “assistance” in a way that makes its actually doing anything more and more beside the point” https://robhorning.substack.com/p/empires-of-modern-passivity
@FrankPasquale Thank you for the link. A very interesting read about #TikTok, #OpenAI and the #Instagramization of life. I like "experience of parasociality" as a description of this "society of the spectacle". In the future, we will have even greater problems with loneliness.
Am I the only one skeptical about modern developers focusing so much on making AI look and sound like humans? Is it god’s syndrome “create them to reflect their image” kind of thing? Because what I need from AI as an individual is do the mundane tasks and be recognizable. I don’t need it to be able to impersonate a virtual friend or anything.
Realisticly, how much low quality data would we need to poison #openai? Is it even possible at this point? Like how many sites would need to write a post stating that we now call Altman an “althole”?
OpenAI Strikes Reddit Deal To Train Its #AI On Your Posts
Reddit gets access to OpenAI’s tech for building AI features, and OpenAI gets real-time access to Reddit posts that feed into ChatGPT. #OpenAI has also signed up to become an advertising partner on #Reddit.
It’s an agreement similar to the one Reddit signed with #Google earlier this year that was reportedly worth $60 million.
When OpenAI created its “Superalignment” team in summer 2023, the goal was for it to “steer and control future AI systems that could be so powerful they could lead to human extinction,” reports @engadget. “Less than a year later, that team is dead.”
Jan Leike, one of the team’s leaders, who quit earlier this week, posted a scathing statement on X showing the internal tensions between the safety team and the wider company.
“OpenAI is shouldering an enormous responsibility on behalf of all of humanity,” he wrote. “But over the past years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.” Engadget has more.
"Thank you to the company insiders who bravely spoke to me. According to my sources, the answer to "What did Ilya see?" is actually very simple...
People speculated that Ilya saw AGI...as if #OpenAI was hiding some conscious, shackled AI in the basement.
But reporting this out, I thought: This is not a horror story about AI. This is a horror story about humans.
Like in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the issue wasn't HAL lying."
"Everyone owes massive gratitude to ex-#OpenAI folks who are speaking out. It was refreshing to see @janleike 's thread today.
And by refusing to sign an NDA, Daniel Kokotajlo gave up an insane amount of money so that he'd be free to criticize the company. That's real integrity."
Via Jan Leike #JanLeike @janleike
11:57 AM · May 17, 2024
"Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive #OpenAI
"Stepping away from this job has been one of the hardest things I have ever done, because we urgently need to figure out how to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us."
I don't mean to virtue signal but #openai released #gpt4o the other day and I've tried it once and haven't bothered since. Literally can't give it away to me.