Close Menu
Best in TechnologyBest in Technology
  • News
  • Phones
  • Laptops
  • Gadgets
  • Gaming
  • AI
  • Tips
  • More
    • Web Stories
    • Global
    • Press Release

Subscribe to Updates

Get the latest tech news and updates directly to your inbox.

What's On

Meta Goes Even Harder Into Smart Glasses With 3 New Models

18 September 2025

The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

17 September 2025

Save Big on Our Favorite TCL Televisions

17 September 2025
Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram
Just In
  • Meta Goes Even Harder Into Smart Glasses With 3 New Models
  • The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing
  • Save Big on Our Favorite TCL Televisions
  • Fired CDC Director Says RFK Jr. Pressured Her to Blindly Approve Vaccine Changes
  • Vampire: The Masqurade – Bloodlines 2’s DLC Clans Are Now In The Base Game Following Fan Backlash
  • Your Kindle Can Speak Multiple Languages
  • Review: Apple iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max
  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Bananas for Google Gemini’s AI Image Generator
Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram Pinterest Vimeo
Best in TechnologyBest in Technology
  • News
  • Phones
  • Laptops
  • Gadgets
  • Gaming
  • AI
  • Tips
  • More
    • Web Stories
    • Global
    • Press Release
Subscribe
Best in TechnologyBest in Technology
Home » OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check
News

OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check

News RoomBy News Room14 December 20233 Mins Read
Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Reddit Telegram Email
Share
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email

OpenAI was founded on a promise to build artificial intelligence that benefits all of humanity—even when that AI becomes considerably smarter than its creators. Since the debut of ChatGPT last year and during the company’s recent governance crisis, its commercial ambitions have been more prominent. Now, the company says a new research group working on wrangling the super-smart AIs of the future is starting to bear fruit.

“AGI is very fast approaching,” says Leopold Aschenbrenner, a researcher at OpenAI involved with the Superalignment research team established in July. “We’re gonna see superhuman models, they’re gonna have vast capabilities and they could be very, very dangerous, and we don’t yet have the methods to control them.” OpenAI has said it will dedicate a fifth of its available computing power to the Superalignment project.

A research paper released by OpenAI today touts results from experiments designed to test a way to let an inferior AI model guide the behavior of a much smarter one without making it less smart. Although the technology involved is far from surpassing the flexibility of humans, the scenario was designed to stand in for a future time when humans must work with AI systems more intelligent than themselves.

OpenAI’s researchers examined the process, called supervision, which is used to tune systems like GPT-4, the large language model behind ChatGPT, to be more helpful and less harmful. Currently this involves humans giving the AI system feedback on which answers are good and which are bad. As AI advances, researchers are exploring how to automate this process to save time—but also because they think it may become impossible for humans to provide useful feedback as AI becomes more powerful.

In a control experiment using OpenAI’s GPT-2 text generator first released in 2019 to teach GPT-4, the more recent system became less capable and similar to the inferior system. The researchers tested two ideas for fixing this. One involved trainingg progressively larger models to reduce the performance lost at each step. In the other, the team added an algorithmic tweak to GPT-4 that allowed the stronger model to follow the guidance of the weaker model without blunting its performance as much as would normally happen. This was more effective although the researchers admit that these methods do not guarantee that the stronger model will behave perfectly, and they describe it as a starting point for further research.

“It’s great to see OpenAI proactively addressing the problem of controlling superhuman AIs,” says Dan Hendryks, director of the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit in San Francisco dedicated to managing AI risks. “We’ll need many years of dedicated effort to meet this challenge.”

Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email
Previous Article3 hidden December streaming TV show gems you need to watch
Next Article The best Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra cases in 2023: the 15 best ones

Related Articles

News

Meta Goes Even Harder Into Smart Glasses With 3 New Models

18 September 2025
News

The DOGE Subcommittee Hearing on Weather Modification Was a Nest of Conspiracy Theorizing

17 September 2025
News

Save Big on Our Favorite TCL Televisions

17 September 2025
News

Fired CDC Director Says RFK Jr. Pressured Her to Blindly Approve Vaccine Changes

17 September 2025
News

Your Kindle Can Speak Multiple Languages

17 September 2025
News

Review: Apple iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

17 September 2025
Demo
Top Articles

ChatGPT o1 vs. o1-mini vs. 4o: Which should you use?

15 December 2024105 Views

Costco partners with Electric Era to bring back EV charging in the U.S.

28 October 202495 Views

5 laptops to buy instead of the M4 MacBook Pro

17 November 202492 Views

Subscribe to Updates

Get the latest tech news and updates directly to your inbox.

Latest News
News

Your Kindle Can Speak Multiple Languages

News Room17 September 2025
News

Review: Apple iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max

News Room17 September 2025
News

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Is Bananas for Google Gemini’s AI Image Generator

News Room17 September 2025
Most Popular

The Spectacular Burnout of a Solar Panel Salesman

13 January 2025129 Views

ChatGPT o1 vs. o1-mini vs. 4o: Which should you use?

15 December 2024105 Views

Costco partners with Electric Era to bring back EV charging in the U.S.

28 October 202495 Views
Our Picks

Fired CDC Director Says RFK Jr. Pressured Her to Blindly Approve Vaccine Changes

17 September 2025

Vampire: The Masqurade – Bloodlines 2’s DLC Clans Are Now In The Base Game Following Fan Backlash

17 September 2025

Your Kindle Can Speak Multiple Languages

17 September 2025

Subscribe to Updates

Get the latest tech news and updates directly to your inbox.

Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram Pinterest
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
© 2025 Best in Technology. All Rights Reserved.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.