OpenAI’s huge push to make superintelligence safe | Jan Leike

In July 2023, OpenAI announced that it would be putting a massive 20% of its computational resources behind a new team and project, Superalignment, with the goal to figure out how to make superintelligent AI systems aligned and safe to use within four years.

Today's guest Jan Leike, Head of Alignment at OpenAI, will be co-leading the project.

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[voncolborn]

And now he's gone. It will be interesting: 1. what he and Illya do in the future, and 2. What Altman does about the gaping hole left in their alignment team and how he handles the publicity and speculations about 'why they left'.

[monx]

i would not be surprised to learn that the superalignment issue is contentious within OpenAI. I don't think it becomes a problem in the current regime of autoregressive GPT. maybe in 2 or 3 generations when the system has a degree of agency, ability to run by itself, or does some form of self improvement.

[flickwtchr]

I guess the program didn't go so well. We need more whistleblowers in AI that's for damn sure.

[yfzhangphonn]

GPT is confused after they left, I have unsubscribed it

[theyogacoachuk]

This sounds to me like raising teenagers 😂

[club]

this didn't age well... looks like its an all out race to agi no safety at all and i doubt its just for OpenAi. Seems to me its practically here I mean llm's have beat the turing test already things are just plain smart in ways we don't even understand.