Re:Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
by danbmil99 on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @11:36PM
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From a doomer/EA perspective, publicly saying that GPT5 is AGI or such would likely inspire & accelerate labs around the world to catch up. Thus it was more "Altruistic" / aligned with humanity's fate to stay mum and leave the situation cloudy.
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Re:Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
by esafak on Thursday November 30, 2023 @01:44AM
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No, it would not; they are already trying to catch up.
Re:Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
by brhsagain on Thursday November 30, 2023 @02:07AM
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Having an existing example showing that something difficult is possible causes everyone else to replicate it much faster, like how a bunch of people started running sub-4-minute miles after the first guy did it.
Re:Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
by throwuwu on Thursday November 30, 2023 @11:10AM
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If you know the outcome is favourable then you go all in. Right now the other competitors are just trying to match GPT4, if they knew AGI was achievable then they would throw everything they have at it in order to not be left out.
Re:Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board
by xp84 on Thursday November 30, 2023 @05:45PM
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Show me the researchers and companies where the people in charge and the people doing the work don’t think it’s possible to get better than GPT-4 and are slow-rolling things.
I suppose maybe there are ones where they are slow-rolling because of their opinions about existential risk of AGI. But that’s not contingent on what OpenAI says or does.