OpenAI Co-Founder John Schulman Is Joining Anthropic (cnbc.com) 3
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman announced Monday that he is leaving to join rival AI startup Anthropic. CNBC reports: The move comes less than three months after OpenAI disbanded a superalignment team that focused on trying to ensure that people can control AI systems that exceed human capability at many tasks. Schulman had been a co-leader of OpenAI's post-training team that refined AI models for the ChatGPT chatbot and a programming interface for third-party developers, according to a biography on his website. In June, OpenAI said Schulman, as head of alignment science, would join a safety and security committee that would provide advice to the board. Schulman has only worked at OpenAI since receiving a Ph.D. in computer science in 2016 from the University of California, Berkeley.
"This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work," Schulman wrote in the social media post. He said he wasn't leaving because of a lack of support for new work on the topic at OpenAI. "On the contrary, company leaders have been very committed to investing in this area," he said. The leaders of the superalignment team, Jan Leike and company co-founder Ilya Sutskever, both left this year. Leike joined Anthropic, while Sutskever said he was helping to start a new company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. "Very excited to be working together again!" Leike wrote in reply to Schulman's message.
"This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work," Schulman wrote in the social media post. He said he wasn't leaving because of a lack of support for new work on the topic at OpenAI. "On the contrary, company leaders have been very committed to investing in this area," he said. The leaders of the superalignment team, Jan Leike and company co-founder Ilya Sutskever, both left this year. Leike joined Anthropic, while Sutskever said he was helping to start a new company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. "Very excited to be working together again!" Leike wrote in reply to Schulman's message.
I have a Ph.D in computer science... (Score:2)
This breathless hero worship is tedious.
This has turned into Nuclear Fusion. Give us money, we'll have something ready... ummm... next year. yeah. Don't worry, it'll be soon... but it's very expensive.
Wtf do they spend all those billions on?
Ha ha.. probably Nvidia cards.
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Who cares? Exactly nobody. This breathless hero worship is tedious. This has turned into Nuclear Fusion. Give us money, we'll have something ready... ummm... next year. yeah. Don't worry, it'll be soon... but it's very expensive. Wtf do they spend all those billions on? Ha ha.. probably Nvidia cards.
I keep wondering the same.
On the one hand, I kinda hope it works out, but I don't want it to work out with this current generation of tech bros making all the decisions about how that power is used. I'm would love for AI to take over programming, but only if I get some form of a living so that I can go on to do things I actually enjoy a little bit again. I'd love if the entire planet could be freed from the drudgery of all the busywork we've developed just to make sure everybody has to pay their dues before
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