"generative AI" is IMO a dumb term and i hope it doesn't stick ("genAI" is obviously even worse)
@sama
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Compute spending will vastly outpace data investment
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do you really think? im pretty sure we will outspend on compute by a _huge_ margin, and at least for companies like openai data spend will go down as models get smarter. curious if i am missing something!
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OpenAI Team Excellence and Deep Commitment to AI
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everyone on the openai team is exceptional and cares deeply. i am very grateful for all of their contributions.
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Neutral AI defaults and user preference alignment strategies
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we are working to improve the default settings to be more neutral, and also to empower users to get our systems to behave in accordance with their individual preferences within broad bounds. this is harder than it sounds and will take us some time to get right.
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ChatGPT Bias: OpenAI Addresses Shortcomings and Employee Harassment
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we know that ChatGPT has shortcomings around bias, and are working to improve it. but directing hate at individual OAI employees because of this is appalling. hit me all you want, but attacking other people here doesn’t help the field advance, and the people doing it know that.
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What makes work hardest? Exploring difficult labor challenges
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what’s the hardest kind of work you know of?
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Technology enables radical imagination for future progress
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it sucks that it has become a radical position to talk about a radically better world; if we cannot collectively imagine that, progress on even the small wins will be much harder technology can enable solutions that are hard to dream of with the constraints of today
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Building Amazing Futures Beyond Fixing Problems
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it's not enough to just fix the bad things; we need to aspire to a future that involves building new amazing things a lot of tech (and public policy) has forgotten this
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OpenAI Remote Work Policy and San Francisco Office Concerns
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(that said, some of our best people are remote, and we will continue to support it always, so please don't let hating SF stop you from applying to openai! i don't like the open air fentanyl markets either…)
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Remote Work Backlash: Tech Companies Reconsider Permanent Work-From-Home
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some remote, but mostly in person. imo most tech companies who rushed to full remote permanently made a big mistake, and the cracks are starting to show. (works for some!) hard work is even less fashionable than in-person work, but i still really believe in that too!