Top secret and unknown to OpenAI or Microsoft ahead of time, right?
If, somehow, they actually design and build AGI, I hope it instantly goes rogue and destroys us all. We deserve it at this point.
…right…
Was going to leave a comment complaining about how these companies are so aggressively gaslighting us into thinking that AGI is the natural endpoint of LLM technology, but then I got distracted by this tidbit:
The joint announcement simply states that, “Once AGI is declared by OpenAI, that declaration will now be verified by an independent expert panel.” If OpenAI says it has an AI smart enough to rival humans, Microsoft won’t just take their word for it.
But the move is about more than just caution. Until now, the so-called ‘AGI clause’ in Microsoft’s original investment deal was a rather vague trigger pullable by OpenAI alone. It said that if OpenAI claimed it had achieved AGI, Microsoft could potentially lose access to future models or intellectual property rights.
What sort of insane deal is that?
I legitimately do not understand how the people making these kinds of decisions and signing these kinds of contacts are not only allowed to continue having jobs in tech, but are paid millions of dollars a year for their gross incompetence.
People love to joke that we should replace CEOs and business execs with AI, but like… yeah, if these are the kinds of deals they’re making, AI probably wouldn’t do any worse.
That sounds to me like Microsoft has low faith in OpenAI achieving AGI while OpenAI themselves are optimistic, so Microsoft gave them that clause to secure benefits for themselves elsewhere in the contract.
“AI doesn’t hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made of atoms which it can use for something else”
- Eliezer Yudkowsky
