When they talk about safety, they mean corporate safety, which is to say that they want to be reasonably sure that GPT4 would not say something that would create a PR nightmare and hurt stock prices. They most definitely were not worried about safety in the sci-fi sense. Large language models are not capable of autonomous action or maintaining long-term goals. They just predict the most likely text given a sample.
Telmo Am Mi, 15. Mär 2023, um 23:51, schrieb John Clark: > It turns out that GPT4 was finished in August but it wasn't released to the > public until yesterday because Microsoft was worried about safety; I wouldn't > be surprised if they'd already completed GPT5 but are afraid to release it. > > GPT 4: 9 Revelations (not covered elsewhere) > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufQmq6X22rM> > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > 7y7 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2TVTN5XzP0r9Sb3Xpy82sZY852_53DNUQ4f0_MCGXTeA%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2TVTN5XzP0r9Sb3Xpy82sZY852_53DNUQ4f0_MCGXTeA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/38e32b61-6bf5-4f6f-854f-4e05917c6f19%40app.fastmail.com.

