“AI #83: The Mask Comes Off” by Zvi

We interrupt Nate Silver week here at Don’t Worry About the Vase to bring you some rather big AI news: OpenAI and Sam Altman are planning on fully taking their masks off, discarding the nonprofit board's nominal control and transitioning to a for-profit B-corporation, in which Sam Altman will have equity.

We now know who they are and have chosen to be. We know what they believe in. We know what their promises and legal commitments are worth. We know what they plan to do, if we do not stop them.

They have made all this perfectly clear. I appreciate the clarity.

On the same day, Mira Murati, the only remaining person at OpenAI who in any visible way opposed Altman during the events of last November, resigned without warning along with two other senior people, joining a list that now includes among others several OpenAI [...]

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Outline:

(01:51) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(04:17) Language Models Don’t Offer Mundane Utility

(06:35) The Mask Comes Off

(18:51) Fun with Image Generation

(18:54) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(19:50) They Took Our Jobs

(20:49) The Art of the Jailbreak

(21:28) OpenAI Advanced Voice Mode

(26:03) Introducing

(28:29) In Other AI News

(30:30) Quiet Speculations

(34:00) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(42:21) The Week in Audio

(42:47) Rhetorical Innovation

(56:50) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:00:36) Other People Are Not As Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:01:53) The Lighter Side

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First published:
September 26th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/FeqY7NWcFMn8haWCR/ai-83-the-mask-comes-off

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