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The doomer philosophy has been there since the inception. OpenAI was created from the fear of Google gaining a monopoly over superintelligence. Could've been just a recruiting strategy from Sam Altman's perspective, but maybe not so much from the people who got recruited. Dario has been around the Effective Altruism circles from way before Anthropic, and the company as a whole has always been about that line of thinking.

Wouldn't make sense to use anything below 5.5 from Anthropic at the moment. But pretty sure this is just an awkward transition phase of at most a week or two until Fable 5.5 is out.

And most LLMs have been multimodal for years at this point.

Even if the input is in plain English, the model never sees any words, tokens or glyphs to begin with. It's vectors all the way down.

Rhetorical question, not really self defeating.

Yes.

OpenAI could have done this same experiment with GPT-4, with possibly even worse results, depending on the quality of the sandbox. Even if the techniques used were not as sophisticated, the natural language output could still easily contain more unhinged sequences of words that lead to the techniques being used.

If the system generates strange conclusions as to when the task is done, or should be stopped, it wouldn't speak to the intelligence inherent to the system.

Not that the techniques used by the LLMs in the actual incident weren't unexpectedly sophisticated, but the outputs of each and every one of these processes could've been read at any time during the run. They just weren't.

The system that solved Navier-Stokes certainly was not about OpenAI engineers just typing and telling it what to do.