<story><title>OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues</title><url>http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-language-model-mass-hysteria-ensues/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilyasut</author><text>Ilya from OpenAI here.  Here&amp;#x27;s our thinking:&lt;p&gt;- ML is getting more powerful and will continue to do so as time goes by.   While this point of view is not unanimously held by the AI community, it is also not particularly controversial.&lt;p&gt;- If you accept the above, then the current AI norm of &amp;quot;publish everything always&amp;quot; will have to change&lt;p&gt;- The _whole point_ is that our model is not special and that other people can reproduce and improve upon what we did.  We hope that when they do so, they too will reflect about the consequences of releasing their very powerful text generation models.&lt;p&gt;- I suggest going over some of the samples generated by the model.  Many people react quite strongly, e.g., &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;justkelly_ok&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1096111155469180928&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;justkelly_ok&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1096111155469180928&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;- It is true that some media headlines presented our nonpublishing of the model as &amp;quot;OpenAI&amp;#x27;s model is too dangerous to be published out of world-taking-over concerns&amp;quot;.  We don&amp;#x27;t endorse this framing, and if you read our blog post (or even in most cases the actual content of the news stories), you&amp;#x27;ll see that we don&amp;#x27;t claim this at all -- we say instead that this is just an early test case, we&amp;#x27;re concerned about language models more generally, and we&amp;#x27;re running an experiment.&lt;p&gt;Finally, despite the way the news cycle has played out, and despite the degree of polarized response (and the huge range of arguments for and against our decision), we feel we made the right call, even if it wasn&amp;#x27;t an easy one to make.</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues</title><url>http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/17/openai-trains-language-model-mass-hysteria-ensues/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>amrrs</author><text>&amp;gt;Elon Musk distances himself from OpenAI, group that built fake news AI tool&lt;p&gt;This is the worst headlines in this matter. This is one of the leading media in India. A language model being touted as Fake news AI tool. This is like calling a car, A run over machine by Ford.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hindustantimes.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;elon-musk-distances-himself-from-openai-group-that-built-fake-news-ai-tool&amp;#x2F;story-Q3PkEU6fsJQVkhilpPCQ8M.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hindustantimes.com&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;elon-musk-distances-hims...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>