#define CTO OpenAI
This story makes it crystal clear how much openAI is accelerating research, for now mostly on reinforcement learning.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.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?