interesting watching people start to debate whether powerful AI systems should behave in the way users want or their creators intend. the question of whose values we align these systems to will be one of the most important debates society ever has.
@sama
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Democratizing AI Access and Enabling User Customization
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it will take us some time, but we will continue to push to democratize access to this technology, and also to figure out how to make it so that it behaves in the way that individual users want (within some very broad bounds)
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EA Critics and Heroes: Ethics in AI Development
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(i used to be annoyed at being the villain of the EAs until i met their heroes*, and now i'm lowkey proud of it *there are a few EA heroes i think are really great, eg Holden)
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Questioning Exclusive AI Knowledge and Decision-Making Authority
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i am extremely skeptical of people who think only their in-group should get to know about the current state of the art because of concerns about safety, or that they are the only group capable of making great decisions about such a powerful technology.
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Iterative Deployment as Safe Path for AI Integration
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iterative deployment is, imo, the only safe path and the only way for people, society, and institutions to have time to update and internalize what this all means.
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AI Field Will Stumble Forward With Transcendent Moments
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the field has a long way to go, and big ideas yet to discover. we will stumble along the way, and learn a lot from contact with reality. it will sometimes be messy; we will sometimes make really bad decisions. we will sometimes have moments of transcendent progress and value.
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ChatGPT capabilities debate exponential AI progress trajectory
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interesting to me how many of the ChatGPT takes are either "this is AGI" (obviously not close, lol) or "this approach can't really go that much further". trust the exponential. flat looking backwards, vertical looking forwards.
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Office Hours Requested for Upcoming AI Project Naming
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can we get some office hours? have some cool stuff coming soon and could use PG naming magic!
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Configurable AI Models and Safety Mode Control Options
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i think it’s very reasonable for “default models” to be inoffensive, but within some pretty bounds i think people should be able to configure the models to behave how they’d like, eg like turning off safe mode
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OpenAI celebrates creative ChatGPT user applications
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also, it really makes all of us at openai so happy to see people enjoying chatgpt so much, and doing such creative things!