I was wondering if I had OpenAI derangement syndrome, but I don’t think so. I can name things I appreciate about OpenAI for (the post-2022 OpenAI, previously it was a different beast):
Their model personalities have dramatically improved over time. There’s some really good (*genuinely* good :-P) character working going on behind the scenes
They handled the 4o psychosis really well, I think? Rolled back the model, improved the character afterwards
All the mundane utility. Really, all the AI companies produce so much mundane utility
Especially the existentially non-risky image and video models which delight so many people
Possibly Sora was an attempt to distract people from LLMs?
Also they virtuously didn’t turn Sora into an addictive short form video RL app
Mundane utility to people with no money for accessing AIs. Good accessibility especially for blind people, too, so Claude tells me.
They produce some pretty cool alignment research, e.g. the sparse circuits work
The insanely long safety testing of GPT-4. Wow. They tested it for more than two current model release cycles. It’s truly a thing of a different era
I was wondering if I had OpenAI derangement syndrome, but I don’t think so. I can name things I appreciate about OpenAI for (the post-2022 OpenAI, previously it was a different beast):
Their model personalities have dramatically improved over time. There’s some really good (*genuinely* good :-P) character working going on behind the scenes
They handled the 4o psychosis really well, I think? Rolled back the model, improved the character afterwards
All the mundane utility. Really, all the AI companies produce so much mundane utility
Especially the existentially non-risky image and video models which delight so many people
Possibly Sora was an attempt to distract people from LLMs?
Also they virtuously didn’t turn Sora into an addictive short form video RL app
Mundane utility to people with no money for accessing AIs. Good accessibility especially for blind people, too, so Claude tells me.
They produce some pretty cool alignment research, e.g. the sparse circuits work
The insanely long safety testing of GPT-4. Wow. They tested it for more than two current model release cycles. It’s truly a thing of a different era
The red-teaming work falls into the same category
Grants for Democratic inputs to AI (small but not nothing)
Open weights, a little bit: Whisper is really cool & useful. GPT-oss was fine, I think, as long as it lasted.