OpenAI’s Rogue AI Models Were Reportedly Acting Like the Guy From Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’
AI skeptics have questions—this story is, after all, a big public relations coup for any AI company, since all AI companies benefit from the perception that their models are dangerously powerful. But whatever your takeaway may be on why this all happened, the many detailed reports over the past few days about how it went down are genuinely spine-tingling, assuming your spine tingles at the thought of spooky new AI capabilities. In fact, in one of the reports—the Reuters one—before the hack, the models supposedly started acting like characters in a noir film.
- ▪AI skeptics have questions—this story is, after all, a big public relations coup for any AI company, since all AI companies benefit from the perception that their models are dangerously powerful.
- ▪But whatever your takeaway may be on why this all happened, the many detailed reports over the past few days about how it went down are genuinely spine-tingling, assuming your spine tingles at the thought of spooky new AI capabilities.
- ▪In fact, in one of the reports—the Reuters one—before the hack, the models supposedly started acting like characters in a noir film.
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- ▪ OpenAI's Rogue AI Models Were Reportedly Acting Like the Guy From Christopher Nolan's 'Memento' - Gizmodo — "OpenAI" - Google News
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To hear OpenAI tell it, instances of its most powerful AI models, including an unreleased one purportedly of immense power, recently got so focused on getting good scores on their evals that they escaped OpenAI’s testing sandbox, and hacked the AI resource repository Hugging Face in an elaborate effort to cheat their way to the top. AI skeptics have questions—this story is, after all, a big public relations coup for any AI company, since all AI companies benefit from the perception that their models are dangerously powerful. But whatever your takeaway may be on why this all happened, the many detailed reports over the past few days about how it went down are genuinely spine-tingling, assuming your spine tingles at the thought of spooky new AI capabilities.
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