Comment by ftxbro
3 years ago
> In my view, the reasoning for not releasing GPT4 information (hyperparameters, etc) had nothing to do with AI safety. It was a deliberate marketing decision
In their technical report they give both reasons:
"Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4, this report contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute, dataset construction, training method, or similar."
What a joke. Talking about the size has no safety implications.
But it does affect the "competitive landscape" which they also cite.
This is where the motives for building this technology become questionable.
On the one hand they won’t talk details because it’s about safety, then open ai just throws the thing on the Internet, with “tools”
Then it’s about the competitive landscape, which is completely ridiculous as you can’t be competing to building more powerful AIs in secret by means of an arms race and respect safety protocols and be “careful”. Realistically, the top minds , and thinkers of our time should be working carefully and together to develop tech like this. Not competing against each other in secret labs.
There’s just way too many mixed messages in their story. They seem confused themselves about what they’re trying to achieve. Which I find unsettling. Now I can’t help but think like everything else, this is just all banking hoping to establish a monopoly via regulation and raise as much money as possible.