[Thread] Superalignment team co-lead explains why he has left, says OpenAI's safety culture and processes took a backseat to shiny products over the past years
Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI.
OpenAI's entire Superalignment team, which was focused on the existential dangers of AI, has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups
During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/AI circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAI Austen Allred / @aust...
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OpenAI has an unusual, extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement with a lifelong nondisparagement commitment; those who don't sign it lose all vested equity
Why is OpenAI's superalignment team imploding? — Editor's note, May 17, 2024, 11:20 pm ET: This story has been updated …
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OpenAI and Reddit partner to bring Reddit content to OpenAI tools including ChatGPT via Reddit's Data API and to add AI features to Reddit
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Despite banning TikTok on government devices, Taiwan isn't considering a US-style ban, saying the app is just one battle in a war against China's disinformation
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Source: the Superalignment team was promised 20% of OpenAI's compute resources but requests for a fraction of that were often denied
Honda plans to invest ~$12.8B in software over the decade up to the FY ending March 2031, as it prepares to join the rapid shift to EVs in markets like China
Yuichi Shiga / Nikkei Asia :
Training AI on stereotypical facial expressions is bound to mislead because scientific evidence indicates that there are no universal expressions of emotion
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Hong Kong launches a pilot program enabling digital yuan payments through major Chinese banks, first deployment of China's currency beyond the mainland
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Expedia fires its CTO Rathi Murthy and SVP Sreenivas Rachamadugu due to a “violation of company policy”, days after its annual product and partner conference
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Meta is working on an Instagram feature called Peek that lets users post unedited, authentic pictures that can only be viewed once
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
OpenAI says ChatGPT can now directly import files from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, available to Plus, Team, and Enterprise users
Photo editing and sharing app VSCO says it is now profitable, has a user base of 200M worldwide, and has 160K subscribers for its $59.99/year Pro product
Paayal Zaveri / Bloomberg : X: @lapresmidi , @caseymlewis , @edludlow , @drjessmaddox , @analoguepilot , @joeldflory , @dmcgco , and @jeiting X: Lauren Sherman / @lapresmidi : Every time I see the Vi...
Apple limits the development and testing of third-party browser engines to devices physically located in the EU, forcing browser makers to have staff in the EU
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Some researchers say GPT-4o's Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites, likely due to inadequate data cleaning
Zeyi Yang / MIT Technology Review :
Reddit reintroduces the awards system it shut down in 2023, ends the replacement Golden Upvotes system, and expands its Contributor Program to 35 countries
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