The San Francisco-based firm behind ChatGPT will review the company’s processes and safeguards, and plans to share recommendations with the board after 90 days. OpenAI said it expects its next-generation model, which it recently started training, will “bring us to the next level of capabilities” on the path toward artificial general intelligence. (The Logic)
Talking point: The announcement comes about two weeks after the departure of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, a computer scientist who studied in Canada under AI luminary Geoffrey Hinton. Researcher Jan Leike announced his exit from OpenAI shortly after, posting on X Tuesday he had joined rival Anthropic. OpenAI told Wired it had disbanded the safety-focused “superalignment” team Sutskever and Leike co-led in the wake of their departures. OpenAI has a history of tension between those primarily concerned with safeguarding against hypothetical existential risks to humanity posed by the technology and those prioritizing accelerating its development.