Thank you very much for writing this post, Jacob. I think it clears up several of the misconceptions you emphasize.
I generally seem to agree with John that the class of problems OpenAI focuses on might be more capabilities-aligned than optimal but at the same time, having a business model that relies on empirical prosaic alignment of language models generates interesting alignment results and I’m excited for the alignment work that OpenAI will be working on!
Thank you very much for writing this post, Jacob. I think it clears up several of the misconceptions you emphasize.
I generally seem to agree with John that the class of problems OpenAI focuses on might be more capabilities-aligned than optimal but at the same time, having a business model that relies on empirical prosaic alignment of language models generates interesting alignment results and I’m excited for the alignment work that OpenAI will be working on!