OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims
OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims
OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever reportedly likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company.
If anyone finds pictures of the wooden unaligned AI effigy they should post them.
17You mean, other strange spiritual claims?
12“If god did not exist, it’d be necessary to invent him.” — Voltaire
11CW abuse
Thinking of Warren Ellis (yes im aware of the sexual coercion, and that the victims tried to work it out with him to make him improve and how that process has apparently failed, even if the people are positive. So be warned) Supergod again. Where various nations invent their own superhumans/agi cyborgs base them on gods/treat them like gods, and the world dies.
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Are there OpenAI employees who aren't already in a TREACLESian cult? That's the only way I'd believe them thinking that any cult rituals that their "spiritual leader" performs are strange.
10still mad there's no
Uin the term11Utilitarianism was right there!
10c'mon team let's tighten it up, i want this U on my desk by friday
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@GorillasAreForEating Didn't know it had gone as far as executives leading chants of "Feel the AGI!" Explains a lot.
6I heard from an inside source that the actual chant was: “Feel the LLM! Feel the AGI! Greg (brockman) on up, we’re OpenAI! Cool Runnings!”
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4You are right he is a genius like Otis Eugene "Gene" Ray.
9You reckon he knows how gullible his marks are? I’d agree
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In what's arguably turning into the hottest AI story of the year, former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted by the rest of the company's nonprofit board on Friday, leading to a seemingly endless drama cycle that's included hundreds of staffers threatening to quit en masse if the board doesn't reinstate him.
A key character in the spectacle has been OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever — who, according to The Atlantic, likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company — and appears to have been one of the main drivers behind Altman's ousting.
"I never intended to harm OpenAI," he tweeted Monday morning, not long after Microsoft, which owns a 49 percent stake in the company, offered Altman a CEO position.
(His frenemy Altman has long championed attaining AGI as OpenAI's number one goal, despite warning about the possibility of an evil AI outsmarting humans and taking over the world for many years.)
The chief scientist even commissioned a wooden effigy to represent an "unaligned" AI that works against the interest of humanity, only to set it on fire.
There's a good chance that the board members who united to boot Altman last week drank just a little too much of the AGI Koolaid and got spooked by the possibility that humanity was hurtling toward the singularity (or heck, maybe they were right to think that!)
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