AISN #14: OpenAI’s ‘Superalignment’ team, Musk’s xAI launches, and developments in military AI use .

OpenAI announces a ‘superalignment’ team

On July 5th, OpenAI announced the ‘Superalignment’ team: a new research team given the goal of aligning superintelligence, and armed with 20% of OpenAI’s compute. In this story, we’ll explain and discuss the team’s strategy.

What is superintelligence? In their announcement, OpenAI distinguishes between ‘artificial general intelligence’ and ‘superintelligence.’ Briefly, ‘artificial general intelligence’ (AGI) is about breadth of performance. Generally intelligent systems perform well on a wide range of cognitive tasks. For example, humans are in many senses generally intelligent: we can learn how to drive a car, take a derivative, or play piano, even though evolution didn’t train us for those tasks. A superintelligent system would not only be [...]

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Outline:

(00:11) OpenAI announces a ‘superalignment’ team

(03:50) Musk launches xAI

(05:12) Developments in Military AI Use

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First published:
July 12th, 2023

Source:
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-14

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