Anthropic’s founding team consists of, specifically, people who formerly led safety and policy efforts at OpenAI
This claim seems misleading at best: Dario, Anthropic’s founder and CEO, led OpenAI’s work on GPT-2 and GPT-3, two crucial milestone in terms of public AI capabilities. Given that I don’t have much time to evaluate each claim one by one, and Gell-Mann amnesia, I am a bit more skeptical of the other ones.
I don’t see how the claim isn’t just true/accurate. Whether or not he led/contributed to the GPT series, (I an under the impression that) Dario Amodei did lead safety efforts at OpenAI.
I don’t see how the claim isn’t just true/accurate.
If someone reads “Person X is Head of Safety”, they wouldn’t assume that the person led the main AI capabilities efforts of the company for the last 2 years.
Only saying “head of the safety team” implies that this was his primary activity at OpenAI, which is just factually wrong.
According to his LinkedIn, from 2018 until end of 2020, when he left, he was Director of Research and then VP of Research of OpenAI, where he “set overall research direction” and “led the effort to build GPT2 and 3″. He led the safety team before that, between 2016 and 2018.
I do think it’s fair to consider the work on GPT-3 a failure of judgement and a bad sign about Dario’s commitment to alignment, even if at the time (also based on LinkedIn) it sounds like he was also still leading other teams focused on safety research.
(I’ve separately heard rumors that Dario and the others left because of disagreements with OpenAI leadership over how much to prioritize safety, and maybe partly related to how OpenAI handled the GPT-3 release, but this is definitely in the domain of hearsay and I don’t think anything has been shared publicly about it.)
This claim seems misleading at best: Dario, Anthropic’s founder and CEO, led OpenAI’s work on GPT-2 and GPT-3, two crucial milestone in terms of public AI capabilities.
Given that I don’t have much time to evaluate each claim one by one, and Gell-Mann amnesia, I am a bit more skeptical of the other ones.
Was Dario Amodei not the former head of OpenAI’s safety team?
He wrote “Concrete Problems in AI Safety”.
I don’t see how the claim isn’t just true/accurate. Whether or not he led/contributed to the GPT series, (I an under the impression that) Dario Amodei did lead safety efforts at OpenAI.
If someone reads “Person X is Head of Safety”, they wouldn’t assume that the person led the main AI capabilities efforts of the company for the last 2 years.
Only saying “head of the safety team” implies that this was his primary activity at OpenAI, which is just factually wrong.
According to his LinkedIn, from 2018 until end of 2020, when he left, he was Director of Research and then VP of Research of OpenAI, where he “set overall research direction” and “led the effort to build GPT2 and 3″. He led the safety team before that, between 2016 and 2018.
I do think it’s fair to consider the work on GPT-3 a failure of judgement and a bad sign about Dario’s commitment to alignment, even if at the time (also based on LinkedIn) it sounds like he was also still leading other teams focused on safety research.
(I’ve separately heard rumors that Dario and the others left because of disagreements with OpenAI leadership over how much to prioritize safety, and maybe partly related to how OpenAI handled the GPT-3 release, but this is definitely in the domain of hearsay and I don’t think anything has been shared publicly about it.)