Comment by lenerdenator
11 hours ago
I wonder if Altman's definition also includes taking on the same liability as a coworker would.
Probably not.
11 hours ago
I wonder if Altman's definition also includes taking on the same liability as a coworker would.
Probably not.
Would 100% need to be fully insured for liability, with a sizable war chest that OpenAI cannot even afford.
This implies that human employees don’t have insurance. But they do. My company’s cyber insurance for example covers breaches due to employee mistakes. Most companies also have umbrella liability policies. It’s just that for now, AI “employees” need a LOT more coverage.
And that's the rub, isn't it?
If it can replace a worker but does too much work to be checked routinely by a human, and bears no real responsibility for its actions, well... it's really just a way to jack up the value of the settlement the company using it gets to pay out when it does something that causes a lawsuit.
If OpenAI had just simply stuck to making "good enough" models that were open sourced (like they promised they would be when starting out) and could be used to augment a human doing a task - a human that could be given actual consequences for messing up - they wouldn't have burned all of this money trying to reach this nebulous definition of AGI. Hell, "good enough" is what many open-source models are, and that's what terrifies Altman.
What do you mean by bearing no real responsibility for its actions? If I use a model to accomplish a task and it fails, I use something else to try to accomplish the task. If it's my responsibility to complete the task, it can't be the model's responsibility unless I've agreed to some sort of guarantee from the provider.
If the provider says "the model will always be right or your money back" then the provider has got responsibility. If there's no guarantee, there's no responsibility on their part, just on the person whose job it is to try and solve a problem with the model.
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