Be skeptical of OpenAI’s rogue hacker agent story | John Thickstun
If OpenAI loudly proclaims how dangerous AI is, investors will hear how powerful it is. And who benefits from that? On 14 February 2019, OpenAI
If OpenAI loudly proclaims how dangerous AI is, investors will hear how powerful it is. And who benefits from that? On 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called GPT-2, the precursor to the models that power modern AI chatbots and agents such as ChatGPT and Claude.
But OpenAI declared GPT-2 was too risky to release, citing concerns about safety and abuse. I recall being annoyed at the time that OpenAI would
make such a useless announcement: the risks seemed overblown, and without access to the model there wasn’t much for a researcher like me to learn
about GPT-2. Continue reading...
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