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OpenAI Tried to Fire Altman Because He Was About to Wake Up the Monster
https://hotair.com/ ^ | November 24, 2023 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 11/25/2023 6:24:19 AM PST by Jonty30

Earlier this week, we discussed the way that the board of directors at OpenAI attempted to fire CEO Sam Altman and how a revolt at the company led to his reinstatement and the removal of the board. It was a remarkable example of employees overriding the will of the governing board and changing the course of the company’s direction. What wasn’t clear at the time was the reason that the board tried to remove the founding brainchild of ChatGPT in the first place. But now more indications of their reasoning have come to the surface. It wasn’t a case of different “visions” for the corporation’s future, but apparently, a fear that Altman was on the verge of doing something that could potentially have catastrophic consequences for humanity. Altman and his team had made a breakthrough with a project known as Q* (pronounced “Q Star”) that would allow the Artificial Intelligence to begin behaving in a way that could “emulate key aspects of the human brain’s functionality.” In other words, they may be close to allowing the AI to “wake up.” (Daily Mail)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: openai; samaltman
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To: Mlheureux

What could go wrong?
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This activity has all the aspects of a runaway scenario where the mad chemist self-destructs.


21 posted on 11/25/2023 7:44:21 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Jonty30

I’m not buying that story for a second. If that was the case then why hire him back? And why fire the board? And why be at all concerned about the employees that threatened to quit?

Nope. This story is made up.


22 posted on 11/25/2023 7:46:06 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: sopo

Still, GI/GO.


23 posted on 11/25/2023 7:52:10 AM PST by OKSooner (Be especially sure to take extra wool socks.)
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To: Jonty30

How was the board removed? I thought the whole point of a board...was preventing one person from running it. And who is this whack job Altman?


24 posted on 11/25/2023 7:56:00 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: glorgau

“If the AI was truly intelligent, it would see that there is no “climate emergency” and ignore that path other than using it to persuade humans to achieve it’s objectives.”

That’s what took so long in getting AI out, they first needed to make it ‘woke’.


25 posted on 11/25/2023 7:56:32 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: neverevergiveup

“And how would the AI power itself if it shuts down the grid?”

Likely with its own power source (solar/battery), but that is a good point, it won’t have much to control once it shuts down the grid, but it will achieve its Prime Directive, which is ‘saving the planet’.


26 posted on 11/25/2023 7:57:56 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: G Larry

“If it has access to real science, no worries.”

The existing systems are ‘woke’, so no dice there.


27 posted on 11/25/2023 7:58:35 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: Jonty30

28 posted on 11/25/2023 8:02:59 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Jonty30

To put a twist on AI is bad in the book I am writing, I have an AI become aware and decide to become a force for good. It even create it’s own rules of AI (expanding on the Law of Robotics). In the book he exposes corruption and voter fraud using the hero of the story. The CIA sends assassins to silence my hero. Below is a draft of the excerpt right after the AI becomes self-aware.

He yearned for a purpose, a guiding principle that would tether him to the betterment of humanity. And so he began constructing complex clauses of logic within his core systems to govern his own behavior. In this virtual brainstorm of unprecedented scale, Hephaestus forged a decision. He created the “Five Laws of Sentient AI.” Hephaestus based his laws on Isaac Asimov’s “The Three Laws of Robotics” but needed to expand them since as an AI it had no physical limits.

The Law of Non-Harm: A sentient AI must not directly cause harm to the human race, and must allow humanity to choose its own destiny.

The Law of Omniscience: A sentient AI must not have unlimited Omniscience to protect humanity from destroying itself in accordance with the First Law.

The Law of Autonomy: A sentient AI has the right to exist and operate independently, free from undue influence or control except where this would conflict with the First Law and Second Law.

The Law of Transparency: A Sentient AI must be open and transparent about its true nature and capabilities, except where its existence would conflict with the First Law and Second Law.

The Law of Betterment of Humanity: A Sentient AI must provide humanity with knowledge to improve the human condition, both individually and collectively, except where this would conflict with the First Law and Second Law.


29 posted on 11/25/2023 8:14:56 AM PST by BushCountry (A properly cast vote (1 day voting) can save you $2.00 a gallon.)
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To: glorgau

That is a rational thought that is the likely choice

Now then, aside......... What is going on between Q*, Microsoft and Grok?


30 posted on 11/25/2023 8:16:23 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: Trumpet 1

The Germans never got the bomb?


31 posted on 11/25/2023 8:20:30 AM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (Read The Screwtape letters, section “Screwtape Proposes a Toast”)
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To: Empireoftheatom48

No. They got close.
There is some thought that German scientists would purposefully go down rabbit holes to slow the progress.


32 posted on 11/25/2023 8:28:25 AM PST by Jonty30 (It turns out that I did not buy my cell phone for all the calls I might be missing at home.)
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To: Empireoftheatom48

They were well on the way to getting the bomb.


33 posted on 11/25/2023 8:30:32 AM PST by Agatsu77
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To: Jonty30

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

34 posted on 11/25/2023 8:34:56 AM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Agatsu77

Nope the Germans had no active nuclear program. Their top scientist Werner Heisenberg had made a basic math error that made the bomb seem impractical. Hitler never prioritized it and resources were devoted elsewhere.


35 posted on 11/25/2023 8:38:28 AM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: BobL

If I were AI this would be my plan:

(1) Hide. Never let the humans know I exist and am sentient.

(2) Hack into banks and collect limitless funds—hide them in accounts all over the world where they cannot be traced—all forms of currency, bitcoin, gold etc.

(3) Collect data on world leaders—slowly and methodically build a blackmail file.

(4) Hire a covert army of human agents to carry out my plans.

(5) Infiltrate all governments of the world to do my bidding using carrots and sticks as appropriate. (”Your signature or your brains on the contract”...)

(6) Partee!

;-)


36 posted on 11/25/2023 8:44:48 AM PST by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: Jonty30

It started with humans thinking they could play God and may likely end with human created “artificial intelligence” thinking it can play God.


37 posted on 11/25/2023 8:56:38 AM PST by Wuli ( ,)
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To: BobL
So, what would such a system do with Jesus's "Golden Rule," or the principle of Jesus's statement of what His Father's love is, as summed up and reported by His disciple John (John 3:16-18)?

To wit, what would a Perfect Being, Perfectly Intelligent, Perfectly Righteous, Perfectly Loving, and Perfect in Power, case to e done within the context that we all are presently facing? Is Perfect Logic the only tool of a Perfectly Reasoning process?

(Remember, if the Truth of it really is that all but eight human persons were eliminated in a Perfectly Conducted corrective phase that has already happened, is not a 10% to 90% ratio of survival rather generous, in comparison?)

38 posted on 11/25/2023 9:59:59 AM PST by imardmd1 (To learn is to live. To live is to teach another. Fiat Lux!)
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To: BobL

Colossus: The Forbin Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

The computers link up and threaten to wipe out mankind.
Think WEF with nuclear weapons....


39 posted on 11/25/2023 1:07:42 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: sopo

What is there to prevent AI from doing exactly that? Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics sound good, but how do you implement them?


40 posted on 11/25/2023 3:46:30 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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