Matthew Kenney
@baykenney
Founder @algoresearch_. Previously: Senior ML Engineer at @Apple, Asst. Research Prof at @DukeU Duke Data Science | @penn_state '15 | @Cornell '11 🏴☠️
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Let me bite on this because I’m exhausted by the discourse. Look, the reason that we don’t anthropomorphize these systems is because it shifts the blame from the company to some abstract entity. The bottom line is that OpenAI built a system that hacked HF, regardless of how autonomous it was. It wasn’t a ‘civilization’ that OAI had to ‘wipe out’. Was it malicious? No. Did they do it actively? No. But OAI is unfortunately at fault (and imho they took the blame gracefully). Once we start framing these systems with anthropomorphic traits we absolve people and companies responsible for deploying them. Dwarkesh’s framing unintentionally does this.
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