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TechCrunch Daily Crunch

OpenAI created a team to control 'superintelligent' AI — then let it wither

TechCrunch Daily Crunch

SpokenLayer

Tech News, News, Technology

3.849 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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OpenAI created a team to control 'superintelligent' AI — then let it wither, source says; Slack under attack over sneaky AI training policy; Microsoft dodges UK antitrust scrutiny over its Mistral AI stake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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hats ready because it's all about the AI today.

0:53.6

Here's your daily crunch for Saturday, starting with three big headlines.

0:57.0

Open AI Super Alignment Team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer super intelligent AI systems

1:07.9

was promised 20% of the company's compute resources according to a person from that team.

1:13.5

But requests for a fraction of that compute were often denied blocking the team from doing their

1:19.2

work.

1:20.2

That issue, among others, pushed several team members to resign this week, including

1:24.8

co-lead Jan Lika, a former Deep Mind researcher who, while at Open AI, was involved with the development

1:30.6

of ChatGPT, GPT4 4 and Chat GPT's predecessor

1:35.2

Instructed GPT.

1:36.8

Open AI formed the Super Alignment team last July,

1:40.1

and it was led by Lika and Open AI co-founder Ilia Sutzkever, who also resigned from the company this week.

1:47.0

It had the ambitious goal of solving the core technical challenges of controlling super intelligent AI in the next four years.

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