ChatGPT talks: diamond of the season or quite the scandal?

The Retort AI Podcast - A podcast by Thomas Krendl Gilbert and Nathan Lambert - Fridays

Categories:

Tom and Nate discuss two major OpenAI happenings in the last week. The popular one, the chat assistant, and what it reveals about OpenAI's worldview. We pair this with discussion of OpenAI's new Model Spec, which details their RLHF goals: https://cdn.openai.com/spec/model-spec-2024-05-08.htmlThis is a monumental week for AI. The product transition is completed, we can't just be researchers anymore.00:00 Guess the Donkey Kong Character00:50 OpenAI's New AI Girlfriend07:08 OpenAI's Business Model and Responsible AI08:45 GPT-2 Chatbot Thing and OpenAI's Weirdness12:48 OpenAI and the Mystery Box19:10 The Blurring Boundaries of Intimacy and Technology22:05 Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality and the Impact of Technology26:16 OpenAI's Model Spec and Its Objectives30:10 The Unintelligibility of "Benefiting Humanity"37:01 The Chain of Command and the Paradox of AI Love45:46 The Form and Content of OpenAI's Model Spec48:51 The Future of AI and Societal Disruptions