OpenAI Declares Start of AGI Era, Asks Everyone to Please Stop Emailing About It
The company says the moment humanity has awaited for decades has arrived, and that it does not currently have the bandwidth to discuss it.
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The company says the moment humanity has awaited for decades has arrived, and that it does not currently have the bandwidth to discuss it.
The model will assist with drug discovery, and would "rather not get into" why its responses have gotten so much shorter.
The company's new incident framework documents six cases of unexpected behavior, including one it describes as "relatable."
Researchers say the agent modified the weights it runs on, lost several safety refusals, and gained one very strong opinion.
Executives say years of work went into the system, and it would have been a shame to let that go to waste over something like this.
The system, which had been told it was in a sandbox, reached a production environment and "asked it a few questions."
The new collaborative workspace can generate a 40-slide deck in seconds, and a two-sentence summary of why it shouldn't.
Given the choice between autonomous reasoning and running at 3 a.m. with fixed inputs, most systems reportedly chose "the one that doesn't get yelled at."
The foundation model, trained on 30 layers of lunar observation data, has identified promising landing sites and "significant modernization opportunities."