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Naomi Bashkansky | oai-reflections-mini

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Shortly after I joined, former Board member Larry Summers said that OpenAI is characterized by its vaulting and transcendent ambition. If I were to do PCA on the “personality” of OpenAI, that would be the first principal component. But there are many other principal components. I will leave my full reflections on OpenAI for another blog post. I cannot do this strange, audacious, once-in-a-century (millennia?) company justice without writing for pages upon pages. For now, here’s one reflection: is OpenAI AGI-pilled? In many ways, OpenAI “Feels the AGI” – i.e., makes decisions that take into account the outcomes from and timelines to AGI and superintelligence. In other ways, it really hasn’t Felt the AGI. As examples: my onboarding gave a brief mention that one of our core values is that we "Feel the AGI," then never mentioned AGI again. At lunch, I overheard conversations about research, gossip, and weekend plans, but rarely high-minded debates hashing out concretely what kind of instit

Let me tell you one reason why OpenAI is chaotic, and why that's to its benefit. Shortly after I joined, former Board member Larry Summers said that OpenAI is characterized by its vaulting and transcendent ambition. If I were to do PCA on the “personality” of OpenAI, that would be the first principal component. But there are many other principal components. I will leave my full reflections on OpenAI for another blog post. I cannot do this strange, audacious, once-in-a-century (millennia?) company justice without writing for pages upon pages. For now, here’s one reflection: is OpenAI…

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