Astra Is Hard to Monitor - by Zvi Mowshowitz
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OpenAI’s central message on Astra is that it is three things:
OpenAI’s central message on Astra is that it is three things: Highly capable and can do all the things for you. Hard to monitor. The most aligned model. The first claim largely checks out. Astra and Fable are both clearly excellent models. This post is about their second claim, which to their credit they are being loud about, in three parts: The system card result, affirmed on Twitter by several OpenAI employees including Tomek Korbak, and in an excellent post by Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki that I covered yesterday, that Astra is harder to monitor. OpenAI’s use of recurrent depth…
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