If it’s true that Altman won’t return to OpenAI (or alternatively: that the current board won’t step down) then where does that leave OpenAI? Microsoft can’t be happy, as evidenced by reporting that Nadella was acting as mediator to bring him back. Does OpenAI survive this?
Will be super interesting when all the details come out regarding the board’s decision making. I’m especially curious how the (former) CEO of Twitch gets nominated as interim CEO.
Finally, if Altman goes his own way, it’s clear the fervent support he’s getting will lead to massive funding. Combined with the reporting that he’s trying to create his own AI chips with Middle East funding, Altman has big ambitions for being fully self reliant to own the stack completely.
No idea what the future holds for any of the players here. Reality truly is stranger than fiction.
Do you really need all 3? Is each one going to claim that they're the only ones who can develop AGI safely?
Since Sam left, now OpenAI is unsafe? But I thought they were the safe ones, and he was being reckless.
Or is Sam just going to abandon the pretense, competing Google- and Microsoft-style? e.g. doing placement deals, attracting eyeballs, and crushing the competition.
Surely that's what you need for safety?
The default consequence of AGI's arrival is doom. Aligning a super intelligence with our desires is a problem that no one has solved yet.
"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."
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Listen to Dwarkesh Podcast with Eliezer or Carl Shulman to know more about this.
It's a problem that we haven't seen the existence of yet. It's like saying no one has solved the problem of alien invasions.
It's like saying don't worry about global thermonuclear war because we haven't seen it yet.
The Neandethals on the other hand have encountered a super-intelligence.