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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned about the dangers of AI
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OpenAI has announced a new AI model, esoterically dubbed o1, that it describes as even more capable than anything that has come before – and even more dangerous. But before you start worrying about the machine apocalypse, it is worth thinking about what purpose such warnings serve.
While previous models such as GPT-4 were considered “low” risk for public release, according to OpenAI’s in-house framework, its new o1 model is the first to qualify as “medium” risk on half the criteria. OpenAI bases…
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