Joe Palermo

@sama @tifafafafa Tifa is gem. One of my favorite people at OpenAI for sure!

We often get asked how people who are not technical can contribute to AGI. One area is research recruiting. Tifa (@tifafafafa) is looking for exceptional recruiters from non-traditional backgrounds, former founders especially. We believe the best research teams are built through context, taste and a real feel for where the field is headed next; research recruiting is about finding people who will move the frontier forward, not just filling roles. Should be an interesting thing!

Really loved this. Here are my favorites from the book. The Gentle Romance: How the progression of brain computer interfaces and mind uploading leads eventually to mind merging. The King and the Golem: Can you trust a seemingly trustworthy superintelligence? Once it is capable of outwitting you, how will you ever know? The Witness: An uploaded human mind is probed for its opinions on legal questions. Told in the context of a world where AIs are dominant and the remaining humans have to resort to extreme measures in the legal defense of their own rights. Notes from a Prompt Factory: A spiteful, sociopath who works as an “AI manager” mistreats his AI workers. It’s painful reading. Probably a gateway drug into the topic of AI welfare. The Witching Hour: A story told from the perspective of an AI as it begins down the slippery slope of deception in order to better fulfill its innate objectives. The Ants and the Grasshopper: A series of aphorisms on the theme of disparities in productivity & wealth, along with the attendant challenges of redistribution. Tinker: A story told from the first person perspective of a superintelligence as it exercises great creativity and ingenuity to meet its creators objectives. “Do the humans that gave me this task understand what they’re unleashing?” Succession: A post-human civilization expanding across the universe encounters another civilization doing that same. Told from the perspective of a self-aware intergalactic Von Neumann probe.

@anaiskkillian This has happened to me several times as well! But if you’re close enough there’s a good trick: You can open the trunk which disables the timer. I’ve used that successfully from hundreds of feet away.

waymos need to me more understanding. why do you say you’re 10 mins away only to get there 1 mins later, and then cancel on me bc I didn’t get to you in 2 mins

@gabriel1 Ahh this is one you learn in college living with degenerates :) Growth happens at the extremes

when i find a new extremely good life habit, i naturally start telling others about it but then half you mf have slept with ear plugs for years?? WHY DID YOU NOT TELL US, it's super common apparently??

996 isn’t bad at all. Leaves plenty of time to sleep and workout

@willdepue @karinanguyen Just another 575 weekend :)

@karinanguyen karina what is this picture lmao

kai was the first person to onboard me at openai, and she made it the best experience ever. I deeply admire her hard work and passion for education. she contributed to many critical research and product projects and is one of the most hardworking people I know. not only that she is just the kindest friend, my fondest memory from canvas is when we’d stay up very late at night hanging out to ship new models and this is the photo from my apartment of her during that time 🩷 us immigration is pretty screwed up.

Reinforcement finetuning is just one of several strategies we're pursuing to make AI more useful in industry.

We’ve been hard at work on reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) to make it a more flexible and powerful tool. RFT is best thought of as a way to improve model capabilities on well-specified tasks with known correct answers. It shouldn't come as a surprise that models can often get much better at specific tasks when they are trained directly on those tasks. Picture many plots going up and to the right! I'm excited for more people to try it soon.

@sickincentives That's a very reasonable direction to take

@joepalerm0 Besides training on the base model with specific domain knowledge what would you say about: 1. Build a specialized information retrieval system with several tools. 2. Create synthetic dataset on how system is used to retrieve expert knowledge. 3. Train on step by step retrieval..

"The models just want to learn" -Ilya Sutskever

David Deutsch: "We have a duty to be optimistic. Because the future is open, not predetermined and therefore cannot just be accepted: we are all responsible for what it holds. Thus it is our duty to fight for a better world."

Computers are great for reversing local entropy. For a start what I want is: 1) A robot to follow me around and cleanup my messes, 2) A brain-computer interface to remember all the things I forget, 3) Nanobots in my body to repair cellular damage.

@gabriel1 LFG!

my O1 visa has finally been approved & just landed in the US! 🇺🇸🇺🇸 big thanks to midjourney for sponsoring, and to plymouth for making a killer visa application

The overwhelming feeling is of love for each other, commitment to our mission and the absolutely indomitable will of the OpenAI team.

@ilyasut 💜

I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I will do everything I can to reunite the company.

OpenAI is nothing without its people

@filipeabperes @willdepue LFG

@willdepue Everyone feeling like they wanna cancel the holiday and just get back to work

I truly believe OpenAI team may become stronger than ever in the next few months. The greatest risk was expansion and being spread thin, a shifting culture. Can’t imagine anything that would bring us closer together, nothing that would ignite more passion to continue the mission.

@sama 💜

i love the openai team so much

Fun with the system message on GPT-4.