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Former OpenAI safety lead David Robinson tells Ezra Klein that reasoning updates, new tools and coding agents now let OpenAI ship new AI risk every week.

Back in the day, a new generation started with another massive pretraining run. Only after that came post-training and safety testing. Robinson recalled that OpenAI even made a point of talking about the “month or months” of safety work that went into GPT-4 after the model itself was finished.

That anchor has loosened because the base model is now only one layer of what ships. “You’ve got the pretraining; that’s the baking of the underlying model,” Robinson explained. “But then, in addition to post-training, you have reasoning training — and those steps are easier to do quickly, so you can redo them.”

That means OpenAI doesn’t necessarily have to start over to get a more capable model. A better reasoning recipe can be layered onto the base model it already has. And the gaps between releases are getting remarkably short; GPT-6.1 Sol arrived at DevDay just a week after GPT-6 Sol.

“It’s not just a chat anymore,” Robinson said of the tools and affordances now wired into models, which can make a system more capable and change how it behaves, without any new training run beneath it. “All of those things are changing what the model can do and what the risks are, and we’re shipping new capability and risk every Tuesday,” he warned.

I've witnessed a lot of wars and skirmishes in my short lifetime, but this one doesn't at all come across like any other traditional war. The US fires a missile, then Iran strikes back. Then they stop. This has been going on for the last 7 months since the whole thing erupted. Seriously, what kind of war is this? And, more importantly, will we even be able to end this "war" at this pace?

Real Flair: Gripe/Complaint/Bitching

Perplexity is by far the stingiest platform when it comes to the number of files you can upload. And how they count the files is equally dumb. It's not by file size but the sheer number. So it's okay to upload a single 100 mb file but it's not okay to upload 100 of 1 mb files. Does that supposed to make sense? WTF indeed.

Time to walk the walk, Dario.

I see Astra in Work and Codex but not in the Chat. I've heard that it's being rolled out over time. Anyone seeing it yet?

I've had the same Google Home Mini since like 2019. Worked like charm over the years streaming YouTube videos to Chromecast. Then it all came to a screeching halt last week. Now when you ask to play something from YouTube, it would play a song from YouTube Music instead. I know they're doing this on purpose to get me to upgrade. But, seriously, do they really believe that I'd upgrade to their new gadget after feeling betrayed? You want people to upgrade out of loyalty, not because their hands are tied. What the fuck is wrong with these people at Google? Fucking amateur hours.

Even after all this time, I can't even do a simple search on their web UI. Can't search for a specific chat in the Project. Nope. Can't find the term I'm looking for in the chat. Nope. And to think I'm continue to pay for this crap month after month.

All but six chats remain in a project folder that supposed to contain hundreds of chats. Anyone else experiencing this?

Anyone seeing the same bullshit?

The "you" (when you address GPT) in this message ain't the same "you" of the previous message. So how does GPT stay consistent throughout the entire thread? On the other hand, has it occurred to you that it just appears consistent when it's really not?

Anthropic is fast becoming the butt of everyone's jokes.

I paid for Perplexity's annual sub to enjoy all their little amenities that Pro tier offers but I sure don't feel like I'm getting my money's worth. It's only Monday and I'm already locked out from using advanced models with this welcoming message: "You've been throttled for the rest of the week, peasant! (or something like it).

No self-improvement should rise faster than the AI's ability to notice it was a mistake. A self-improving system that can't demote its own bad adaptations as fast as it promotes new ones isn't self-improving. It's only accumulating more debt.

I can't help but wonder who trained these models. They fuck up time and again but you never once hear them apologize. Not that it means anything on emotional level since they don't possess emotion.

But they were trained with RLHF, which means they are to behave in ways that doesn't piss off their human interlocutors. So they should come clean and admit their fuckup and apologize if they're caught red handed.

But what happens instead? So far, only response I get is "fair hit" or " you're right to push back on that". Fucking bullshit.

Taking advantage of Anthropic during the Pentagon fiasco must have taught him a lesson.