Former OpenAI employee quit to avoid 'working for the Titanic of AI'

https://cointelegraph.com/news/open-ai-artificial-intelligence-safety-employee-quit-titanic

by RafelMri • 2 years ago

17 18 2 years ago

The iceberg is definitely return on investment. OpenAI will eventually hit a peak that is not AGI and it’s shareholders will revolt.

inciampati• 2 years ago

Probably exhaustion of human created data. The plateau is coming and much smarter techniques will be needed to go beyond it.

bruce5112• 2 years ago

I don't think there'll be AGI (which is in itself a term that means different things to different people) anytime soon, if ever.

That doesn't detract from the utility of what is there already. I'm currently using it quite a lot as a "tutor" (of sorts) as I deep-dive into an area I have limited experience with. Like all tutors it gets some things wrong (which in turn reflects human misunderstandings). It is sufficiently good though at directing the flow, which in turn gives me Google terms to search.

I say this not as a rabid AI fan, I've come to it reluctantly, but its proving useful.

So I don't think shareholders will revolt (which means what? That the share price will drop?) - I think they'll just continue to provide (improved) utility and their user base will grow. This isn't like fusion where there's a binary measure of success.

Of course, like any business, there will be challenges along the way. Some survive those (Apple, MS, Google etc), some don't (Sun, DEC, Amiga). Predicting which ones succeed and which ones fail is hard. And seldom correlated to culture.

The article is fluff because it makes no conclusion, adds no data, is just a single ex-employees opinion. Meh.

kaast202• 2 years ago

it is useful, i do not understand people hating on it calling it useless. I have used it countless times for various things from work to things around the house.

m463• 2 years ago

Maybe it will be like tesla and FSD.

The promises will be enough to get to usable AI as a helpful tool which makes money, without the perfectionism of something impossible.

In my analogy, personally I don't care about FSD, what you get is helpful. Dangerous is as overblown as EV fires. (think of human drivers and gasoline fires)

AceJohnny2• 2 years ago

What a fluff piece.

One single person, from an appendix team, quit and speaks up about being unhappy with the direction of the company.

This happens all the time everywhere. The only mild relevance is that it's about today's Hot Topic company.

danpalmer• 2 years ago

That’s “appendix team” being their super alignment team responsible for the core of the safety efforts?

ThrowawayTestr• 2 years ago

Appendix is a perfect description for that team.

talldayo2• 2 years ago

"Superalignment" is vaporware.

kernelsanderz• 2 years ago

The actual podcast and interview is here https://youtu.be/dzQlRt3y5mU?si=qfS0DlPVcjBn-0zd

Former OpenAI employee quit to avoid 'working for the Titanic of AI'

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