You've got to hand it to OpenAI for their bleeding edge marketing strat:
"WE'VE GOT AN AGI IN THIS CABINET RIGHT HERE AND WE DON'T WANT TO LET IT OUT BECAUSE IT'S SO POWERFUL, IT'S SO AI YOU HAVE NO IDEA, BEST YOU THROW MONEY AT US AND WE'LL KEEP EVERYONE SAFE BUT SORRY YOU"RE ALL REDUNDANT BECAUSE AGI, SORRY"
You'd think that so soon after so many Crypto scams people would be just a wee bit less credulous.
Maybe they asked ChatGPT to come up with an unconventional marketing plan and it had a touch too much blogspam "that will SHOCK and PETRIFY you" in its training set so ChatGPT suggested that they feign a powerstruggle over keeping a humanity ending super-intelligence under wraps.
The report is already starting to get rolled back. We now have a direct denial from OpenAI, and The Verge is reporting that their sources have also denied this happened.
The lack of skepticism that is demonstrated whenever OpenAI/AGI comes up, especially among technologists, is concerning.
"WE'VE GOT AN AGI IN THIS CABINET RIGHT HERE AND WE DON'T WANT TO LET IT OUT BECAUSE IT'S SO POWERFUL, IT'S SO AI YOU HAVE NO IDEA, BEST YOU THROW MONEY AT US AND WE'LL KEEP EVERYONE SAFE BUT SORRY YOU"RE ALL REDUNDANT BECAUSE AGI, SORRY"
You'd think that so soon after so many Crypto scams people would be just a wee bit less credulous.