insane thing: we are currently losing money on openai pro subscriptions! people use it much more than we expected.
@sama
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Public debate needed on AI approach strategy
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yes i really do; i hope we can start a lot more public debate very soon about how to approach this
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Detecting the Critical Moment: Simulation and AI Takeoff
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(it's supposed to either be about 1. the simulation hypothesis or 2. the impossibility of knowing when the critical moment in the takeoff actually happens, but i like that it works in a lot of other ways too.)
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Near the Singularity: A Six-Word AI Story
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i always wanted to write a six-word story. here it is:
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OpenAI Upcoming Features: AGI, Agents, and Advanced Capabilities
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common themes: AGI
agents
much better 4o upgrade
much better memory
longer context
“grown up mode”
deep research feature
better sora
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Supporting Aggressive Experiments to Improve AI Systems
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and i'm very in favor of people trying aggressive experiments to improve them
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Algorithmic Feeds: First Misaligned AIs at Scale
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algorithmic feeds are the first at-scale misaligned AIs
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Alec Radford’s Genius-Level Contributions to AI Field
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it is hard to overstate how much alec radford has contributed to the field, and how much of everyone's current progress traces back to his work. i believe he is a genius at the level of einstein, and also he is one of my favorite people ever–hard to imagine a nicer, warmer, or
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OpenAI Strawberry Team Leadership Achievement Recognized
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i especially want to thanks @MillionInt who relentlessly leads the strawberry team–getting to this point was one of the best displays of leadership in openai history, with much more to come.
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The Challenge of Original Research Over Replication
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it is (relatively) easy to copy something that you know works. it is extremely hard to do something new, risky, and difficult when you don't know if it will work. individual researchers rightly get a lot of glory for that when they do it! it's the coolest thing in the world.