#define CTO OpenAI
This story makes it crystal clear how much openAI is accelerating research, for now mostly on reinforcement learning.<p>I'm sure this is talked about over and over again, but could someone please lead us through the AI safety rationale behind this?
With gym and universe openAI is slashing a few months (years?) off the singularity countdown, most likely. What's the upshot? Why is the expected value of these initiatives positive? The uncertainties seem extremely large.<p>Edit/PS:
To put it more bluntly, and be more specific: are there any projects that openAI is choosing NOT to pursue even though they would be very useful/cool for the research community (à la gym and universe), but where it has had to explicitly restrain itself, because the expected value from an AI safety perspective is negative?