colleges prioritized making people feel perfectly safe over everything else and produced a generation afraid to fail, and thus afraid to take risk, and thus on pace to accomplish extremely little
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OpenAI founding anniversary: seven years milestone
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the first day of openai, seven years ago today
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Experience and credentials arguments lack critical substance
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also, people who try to win arguments with “i have xx years of experience” are second only to the “i have xyz credentials” crowd in terms of lack of likelihood of actually responding to the critical point.
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Experience vs Competence: Industry’s Misplaced Priority
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experience and competence are not the same thing, and it’s wild how much many industries value the first over the second.
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OpenAI Technology: Anticipating Problems and Iterative Improvement
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in particular, there are going to be significant problems with the use of openai tech over time; we will do our best but will not successfully anticipate every issue. we will run a very tight feedback loop for improvement, and try to make our mistakes while the stakes are low.
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ChatGPT Learning from Reality Improves Usefulness Fast
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but it's impossible to get this right with no contact with reality. we are learning so much from ChatGPT; it's going to get a lot better, less annoying, and more useful fast.
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AGI Challenges Worth Overcoming for Transformative Benefits
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there will be scary moments as we move towards AGI-level systems, and significant disruptions, but the upsides can be so amazing that it’s well worth overcoming the great challenges to get there.
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Future AI Will Surpass ChatGPT Capabilities
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and we’ll see great benefits all along the way—they will make ChatGPT look like a boring toy.
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Technological Progress Drives Sustainable Economic Growth
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technological progress is the only thing that delivers real, sustainable economic growth
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Enabling Desired AI Behavior: Research and Development Challenges
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unintended; going to take us some time to get all of this right (and it still requires more research). generally speaking, within very wide bounds we want to enable people get the behavior they want when using AI. will talk more about it in january!