We need scientific and technical breakthroughs to steer and control AI systems much smarter than us. To solve this problem within four years, we’re starting a new team, co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, and dedicating 20% of the compute we’ve secured to date to this effort. We’re looking for e...
TL;DR: OpenAI announces a new team dedicated for researching superintelligence
I don't trust OpenAi with this problem at all. This is a big flaw of using for-private companies to advance technology. They may advance their interests at the cost of humankind.
"While superintelligence* seems far off now, we believe it could arrive this decade."
"Here we focus on superintelligence rather than AGI to stress a much higher capability level. "
They are talking about ASI, my mind is blown. if you talked about any of these things 5 years ago you'd be called insane but these are respected super qualified people saying they believe it may happen this decade. I am at a loss of words.
More knowledge on how alignment and ai works making it easier to predict and control in the future. As for safety, it really depends on how you use it.