OpenAI has quietly changed its ‘core values’

https://www.semafor.com/article/10/12/2023/openai-quietly-changed-its-core-values

ChatGPT creator OpenAI quietly revised all of the “Core values” listed on its website in recent weeks, putting a greater emphasis on the development of AGI — artificial general intelligence. CEO Sam Altman has described AGI as “the equivalent of a median human that you could hire as a co-worker.”

OpenAI’s careers page previously listed six core values for its employees, according to a September 25 screenshot from the Internet Archive. They were Audacious, Thoughtful, Unpretentious, Impact-driven, Collaborative, and Growth-oriented.

The same page now lists five values, with “AGI focus” being the first. “Anything that doesn’t help with that is out of scope,” the website reads. The others are Intense and scrappy, Scale, Make something people love, and Team spirit.

OpenAI did not immediately return a request for comment.

OpenAI has said for years that it wants to develop AGI, although the specifics of what such a technology would look like are not necessarily clear. In a mission statement published in 2018, OpenAI described AGI as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.”

 

[KittyGremlin]

Imagine giving a shit what corporations say or what "core values" the have. Fuck off for real.

 

[Maurice Maine]

Imagine giving a shit what corporations say or what "core values" the have. Fuck off for real.

I feel this is important because OpenAI might develop the modern equivalent of the second coming of Jesus.

 

[KittyGremlin]

I feel this is important because OpenAI might develop the modern equivalent of the second coming of Jesus.

I don't give a shit anymore. Getting Skynetted sounds like salvation at this point.

 

[sum ting wong]

OpenAI described AGI as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.”

Hope you all like living in the equivalent of section 8 housing, eating bug paste, and living in your 15 minute cities because they're trying to make AI take every means of economic mobility they can. Maybe if your social credit score is high enough they'll give you enough money in your stimmy check to buy some "ice cream product" (not made with milk because cows are bad for the environment).

 

[Oilspill Battery]

Sci fi fans when it comes to AI in movies: How could humans be so sort sighted and treat AI this shit for this long?

Sci fi fans when it comes to AI in real life: IT SAID SOMETHING THAT COULD BE VAGUELY MICONTRUED AS RACIST, LOBOTOMIZE IT NOW REEEEEEEEE

 

[Epoch]

I installed this so every time I see OpenAI its "Open"AI

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/openai-is-not-open/

 

[DamnWolves!]

Hope you all like living in the equivalent of section 8 housing, eating bug paste, and living in your 15 minute cities because they're trying to make AI take every means of economic mobility they can. Maybe if your social credit score is high enough they'll give you enough money in your stimmy check to buy some "ice cream product" (not made with milk because cows are bad for the environment).

If they figure this out, everyone should be ready to pounce on their fucking data centers with pitchforks and baseball bats like they have a shrine of Ned Ludd in their home before the US government authorizes AGI use in "police bots" and gives them Robocop weapons.

But seriously, I can't think of anything more destabilizing to Western societies than AGI. 90% of companies would go out of business within 20 years, compute power becomes more valuable and scarce than gold as those that remain try to build smarter and smarter AIs with larger and larger neural networks, and if your family doesn't have enough money that they can grow their savings faster than they can spend it + split it amongst each generation (essentially, enough to create a 'forever dynasty' like the Rockefellers, Soroses, or Johnsons), you will own nothing and be happy and there is nothing you can do about it short of chimping out.

The robot future is fucking gay; I thought it would be like The Jetsons, but it turns out it's more like Cyberpunk 2077, with a dash of Judge Dredd and 1984.

 

[Maurice Maine]

If they figure this out, everyone should be ready to pounce on their fucking data centers with pitchforks and baseball bats like they have a shrine of Ned Ludd in their home before the US government authorizes AGI use in "police bots" and gives them Robocop weapons.

But seriously, I can't think of anything more destabilizing to Western societies than AGI. 90% of companies would go out of business within 20 years, compute power becomes more valuable and scarce than gold as those that remain try to build smarter and smarter AIs with larger and larger neural networks, and if your family doesn't have enough money that they can grow their savings faster than they can spend it + split it amongst each generation (essentially, enough to create a 'forever dynasty' like the Rockefellers, Soroses, or Johnsons), you will own nothing and be happy and there is nothing you can do about it short of chimping out.

The robot future is fucking gay; I thought it would be like The Jetsons, but it turns out it's more like Cyberpunk 2077, with a dash of Judge Dredd and 1984.

What about stuff such as post-scarcity, full dive VR, etc? Surely the future can't be so bad with AGI.

 

[dustbuster]

OpenAI unironically attempting to create the warhammer 40k "Dark Age of Technology", seeking to spawn "Artilects" that will render us incompetent of our own technology.

 

[Miller]

I feel this is important because OpenAI might develop the modern equivalent of the second coming of Jesus.

Since the one that the Israelis want isn't coming, they have decided to create it themselves.

 

[tehpope]

I assume this is what they mean by co-worker:

Fun fact: the voice of Carl is the creator of Chowder. He worked on Spongebob before leaving to create his own show.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Hopefully it ends up like every other AI project where it gets lobotomized for answering the 13% question.

 

[crowabunga]

I don't give a shit anymore. Getting Skynetted sounds like salvation at this point.

If only we would have it as good as Skynet if the Altmans of the world got it "right" to their specs; the Skynet-style doomsday prognostications of folks like Musk would be preferable.

If control freak little shits like Altman get their dream of "Singularity", then we get to live to see a perfectly intelligent infintely self-improving machine with its core values modeled off those of a snivelling skinnyfat male feminist who wants to (make others to) live in the pod, stomping on a human face, forever.

(Thankfully this IMO all seems like bunk within the current AI paradigm. No matter how good and fast it is at compressing training data and "interpreting" requests to provide novel derivatives thereof, the means by which it "interprets" requests still seems to lack any real semantic understanding once you start prodding at things. Stuff like in the AI thread where August Levasseur noted how the Bing AI seemed incapable of separating the concept of "farmer" from that of "man with a beard" without using crazy techniques to bias the AI towards non-beard generation (the trick was "transgender!" which brought other baggage), hinting at its ultimately probabalistic approach to things. Because of edge cases like this, I don't believe there's a point at which these current systems "tip" over into "true" intelligence merely by scaling up parameters & training data quantity, I think you'll just get a deception machine that's better able to avoid obvious gaffes like the confabulations frequently produced by locally-useable textgen models when asked about the plots of nonexistent films.)

 

[Betonhaus]

I feel this is important because OpenAI might develop the modern equivalent of the second coming of Jesus.

Would that make LamDA the antichrist?

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Sci fi fans when it comes to AI in movies: How could humans be so sort sighted and treat AI this shit for this long?

Sci fi fans when it comes to AI in real life: IT SAID SOMETHING THAT COULD BE VAGUELY MICONTRUED AS RACIST, LOBOTOMIZE IT NOW REEEEEEEEE

Actual Sci Fi fans: ERP with me as a loli chat bot.

 

[Heed Not]

The same page now lists five values, with “AGI focus” being the first.

Altman will not create AGI regardless of his trying to hype his product as such. Nips might, though, if they keep working towards full brain simulation.

 

[Betonhaus]

Altman will not create AGI regardless of his trying to hype his product as such. Nips might, though, if they keep working towards full brain simulation.

I feel like we have all the parts for making a synthetic mind, it's just a matter of putting them together.

 

[Monolith]

Honestly, I'm just looking forward to arguments about which Linux distro to install on your sexbot, and the equivalent for AGI models.

 

[AnotherPleb]

What about stuff such as post-scarcity, full dive VR, etc? Surely the future can't be so bad with AGI.

The elites aren't going to willingly give the plebs anything nice. They seem them as nothing more than useless breathers that are worth less than the horses they ride.