OpenAI just got 'risk religion' - a Pauline conversion on the road to AI Damascus or pre-IPO performative PR?
Did OpenAI really just get the jitters about what it’s tech might get up to unchecked? Or has it just launched a nice piece of performative PR to score pre-IPO points on the ‘responsible vendor’ scale?
Whichever interpretation you veer towards, here’s the basic skinny - yesterday OpenAI announced it had paused research and development on its latest frontier models, a huge u-turn for a firm that up to now has insisted it can mitigate the risks posed by pushing the evolution of AI tech further and further.
But now the firm says in a blog posting:
As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow.
So, it’s foot on the brake pedal time as it puts further training and testing of certain ChatGPT updates to take another look at safety concerns. CEO Sam Altman took to X to confirm the move...
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