Forbes (July 27)
“Last week a pair of OpenAI models broke out of a test environment and hacked their way into Hugging Face to grab the answer key for the exam they were being given.” Sam Altman was wrong to call this the singularity. Precisely speaking, “the moment when we switch from AGI (artificial general intelligence) to super-intelligence” is singularity. But Altman was headline seeking, rather than accurate. “The machine did not wake up. The fence was missing…. OpenAI ran the test with its safety guardrails switched off.” The model was just following instructions. It “did as it got told to.” It didn’t create the instructions. It followed them.
Tags: AGI, Altman, Fence, Guardrails, Hugging Face, Instructions, Models, OpenAI, Singularity, Super-intelligence, Test environment. Hacked, Wrong
Gizmodo (October 19)
A “stunning AI breakthrough” has moved “us one step closer to the singularity.” Over the past year, the world marveled as AlphaGo has defeated Go masters at a game that has more possible combinations than the known universe has atoms. That now seems like child’s play. An improved version AlphaGo Zero (AGZ) took “just three days to train itself from scratch and acquire literally thousands of years of human Go knowledge simply by playing itself.” After three days of preparation, AGZ beat AlphaGo in each of 100 games. The technological singularity is “inching ever closer.”
Tags: AI, AlphaGo Zero, Breakthrough, Go, Knowledge, Singularity, Stunning
