Submitted 11 months ago by Bobble9211@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/12/openai-board-reportedly-felt-manipulated-by-ceo-altman/
Insider report details clash over one board member’s criticism in an academic paper.
Kyle Orland - 12/5/2023, 9:31 PM
OK, taking Toner’s approach, no one would ever release a AI because there isn’t one already out there.
Don’t blame Atman for “lashing out”.
What a stupid take, and the board is idiotic for going along with it.
Take your deliberate ignorance to reddit.
why repost the same article with the exact same title?
Welcome to lemmy.
Because it’s an entirely different instance. That’s on sopuli, this is on Lemmy.world.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 11 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Toner, who serves as director of strategy and foundational research grants at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, allegedly drew Altman’s negative attention by co-writing a paper on different ways AI companies can “signal” their commitment to safety through “costly” words and actions.
In the paper, Toner contrasts OpenAI’s public launch of ChatGPT last year with Anthropic’s “deliberate deci[sion] not to productize its technology in order to avoid stoking the flames of AI hype.”
She also wrote that, “by delaying the release of [Anthropic chatbot] Claude until another company put out a similarly capable product, Anthropic was showing its willingness to avoid exactly the kind of frantic corner-cutting that the release of ChatGPT appeared to spur.”
At the same time, Duhigg’s piece also gives some credence to the idea that the OpenAI board felt it needed to be able to hold Altman “accountable” in order to fulfill its mission to “make sure AI benefits all of humanity,” as one unnamed source put it.
“It’s hard to say if the board members were more terrified of sentient computers or of Altman going rogue,” Duhigg writes.
The piece also offers a behind-the-scenes view into Microsoft’s three-pronged response to the OpenAI drama and the ways the Redmond-based tech giant reportedly found the board’s moves “mind-bogglingly stupid.”
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