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Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, who was OpenAI's interim CEO in 2023 when Sam Altman was fired, launches Softmax, a startup focused on AI alignment

Ashlee Vance / Core Memory : Bluesky: @jeffabbott , @virmalised.us , and @edzitron.com X: @eshear , @eshear , and @ashleevance Bluesky: Jeff Abbott / @jeffabbott : “our AI systems are out of alignment” sounds like Star Trek technobabble @virmalised.us : These people can't come up with names to save their fucking lives [embedded post] Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : Any time you see alignment it means “fake company” or “marketing campaign” [embedded post] X: Emmett Shear / @eshear : It's been a journey already and we are just getting started. I cannot believe my job gets to be researching how alignment and open-ended learning work, with a team of people I love working with. I wrote something more you can read about it at https://www.softmax.com/. Emmett Shear / @eshear : As you might have guessed from following my posts here, I've been thinking and working on questions around alignment and learning and agency for a while, particularly for digital systems. Excited to share the work we're doing at Softmax publicly in the future! Ashlee Vance / @ashleevance : .@eshear is back y'all. New company called Softmax focused on alignment [image]

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  • @jeffabbott Jeff Abbott on bluesky
    “our AI systems are out of alignment” sounds like Star Trek technobabble
  • @virmalised.us @virmalised.us on bluesky
    These people can't come up with names to save their fucking lives [embedded post]
  • @edzitron.com Ed Zitron on bluesky
    Any time you see alignment it means “fake company” or “marketing campaign” [embedded post]
  • @eshear Emmett Shear on x
    It's been a journey already and we are just getting started. I cannot believe my job gets to be researching how alignment and open-ended learning work, with a team of people I love working with. I wrote something more you can read about it at https://www.softmax.com/.
  • @eshear Emmett Shear on x
    As you might have guessed from following my posts here, I've been thinking and working on questions around alignment and learning and agency for a while, particularly for digital systems. Excited to share the work we're doing at Softmax publicly in the future!
  • @ashleevance Ashlee Vance on x
    .@eshear is back y'all. New company called Softmax focused on alignment [image]