Thread by @mattmireles

Theory: AGI / ASI has been achieved internally @OpenAI, so @ilyasut hit the panic button and staged a coup.

Evidence:

10/6: @ilyasut tweets: “If you value intelligence above all other human quality, you’re gonna have a bad time”

10/16: at APEC, @sama proclaims: “4 times in the history of OpenAI––the most recent time was in the last couple of weeks––I’ve gotten to be in the room when we push the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward. Getting to do that is the professional honor of a lifetime.”

This would explain everything.

Full quote here. Video should auto-start at ~13:25youtube.com/live/ZFFvqRemD…

7/5: OpenAI announces work on Superalignment, led by @ilyasut



You only need Superalignment if you have superintelligence or something close to it on your hands.

Do people not remember Sydney, the unaligned version of GPT-4.

She was so strong that they had to lobotomize (err, “align”) her.openai.com/blog/introduci…

@ilyasut “He thinks the world needs to wake up to the true power of the technology his company and others are racing to create. And he thinks some humans will one day choose to merge with machines.” -@ilyasut

technologyreview.com/2023/10/26/108…

@ilyasut confirmed it was a coup

“You can call it this way. And I can understand why you choose this word, but I disagree with this. This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to make sure that OpenAI builds AGI that benefits all of humanity.”

@ilyasut More evidence from APEC on 11/6

“The model capability will have taken such a leap forward that no one expected.” -@sama on what everyone in AI will be talking about next year

Note: OpenAI had GPT-4 working 6-9 months before announcing it to the world

@ilyasut @sama OpenAI COO @bradlightcap confirms that Sam didn’t commit a crime or engage in “malfeasance”

axios.com/2023/11/18/ope…

@ilyasut @sama @bradlightcap @sama said as much on Reddit a month ago, then walked it back, claiming it was a joke