The GPT-4 base model is currently being made available to a limited subset of researchers who are studying alignment or the risks and impact of AI systems.
I hope that more researchers in this subset apply for access.
I also hope that people who apply would also inform the community about the status of such applications: is access actually being granted (and if not, is there a response at all), what are the restrictions in terms of the ability to use loom-like tools (which tend to be more compute-intensive compared to pedestrian use), what are the restrictions if any in terms of the ability to share results, etc.
Thanks for the great post!
Note that Sam Altman seems to have promised access to base-GPT-4 model to researchers:
sama March 22 tweet
The OpenAI Researcher Access Program application notes specifically:
I hope that more researchers in this subset apply for access.
I also hope that people who apply would also inform the community about the status of such applications: is access actually being granted (and if not, is there a response at all), what are the restrictions in terms of the ability to use loom-like tools (which tend to be more compute-intensive compared to pedestrian use), what are the restrictions if any in terms of the ability to share results, etc.