A short Specification Gaming Story
(Meant to be read as an allegory.
AGI will probably unlock the ability to realise even the wildest, most unthinkable and fantastical dreams,
but we need to be extreeeeemely careful with the specifications we give
and we won’t get any iterations to improve it)
Inspired by:
Such AI, much WOW! https://t.co/Jc8SNdmyLX
— Dr. Roman Yampolskiy (@romanyam) April 25, 2024
To Reboot your OpenAI Company press CTRL + ALTman + DELETE
So get this straight: OpenAi decides to become a for-profit company now
The CTO, head of research, and VP of training research all decide to leave on the same day this is announced
Sam Altman gets a $10.5B pay day (7% of the company) on the same day
“And after the autonomous agent was found to be deceptive and manipulative, OpenAI tried shutting it down, only to discover that the agent had disabled the off-switch.” (reference to the failed Boardroom Coup)
OpenAI’s creators hired Sam Altman, an extremely intelligent autonomous agent, to execute their vision of x-risk conscious AGI development for the benefit of all humanity but it turned out to be impossible to control him or ensure he’d stay durably aligned to those goals.
(*Spontaneous round of applause*)
2023: Sam Altman claims no financial motive for his OpenAI role.
— Ori Nagel ⏸️ (@ygrowthco) September 27, 2024
*Spontaneous round of applause* pic.twitter.com/LgvRjudgVd
This did not age well
Scoop: Sam Altman is planning to take equity in OpenAI for the first time.
It’s part of a corporate restructure which will also see the non-profit which currently governs OpenAI turn into a minority shareholder.
Reuters Article
Lol…but it’s truly weird…they all started together
For some reason this reminded me of :
This is the classic example from 1930 of Stalin and Nikolai Yezhov. The original photo was made in 1930. Yezhov was executed in 1940, so all photos of Stalin (he liked this one) after that airbrushed out Yezhov.
Moving goalposts is the ONE single unique thing
AI will never surpass humans at,
because the second it does, it will still not be enough!!!
If loving temporally organised oscillations in air pressure is not crazy, why is loving paperclips?
The paperclip maximiser story is demonstrating that saying someone is Super-Intelligent means Super-Capable. It says nothing about how Super-Insane that someone may be.
An intelligent entity can value anything.
“Smart AI would never want something as ridiculous as paperclips!” – exclaimed AI skeptic and went on to enjoy his favorite temporally organized oscillations in air pressure obtained by picking seven specific frequencies out of logarithmic split of twelve for each doubling.
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