OpenAI’s Superalignment Team Unveils Innovative Method for Supervising AI Systems
Posted: December 15, 2023 10:21 AM Updated: December 15, 2023 10:21 AM
Correction and fact check date: December 15, 2023, 10:21 AM
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OpenAI’s Superalignment team has published a new research paper that could potentially simplify the process of supervising highly advanced AI systems for people in the future.
The Superalignment team at artificial intelligence (AI) research institute OpenAI has published a new research paper introducing the concept of leveraging smaller AI models to supervise more advanced AI models. This approach shows impressive results that could potentially simplify the process of overseeing highly advanced AI systems for people in the future.
In traditional machine learning, humans supervise AI systems that are less intelligent than themselves. However, with superintelligent AI, humans will need to oversee systems that are more intelligent than themselves.
Researchers have proposed a way for less powerful AI models to supervise more powerful AI models to guide and control superintelligent AI systems.
In general, a strong model is unlikely to outperform a weak supervisor, but strong pre-trained models possess superior capabilities. The researchers applied this approach by supervising GPT-4 with a GPT-2 level model. The resulting models typically perform between GPT-3 and GPT-3.5, indicating that strong AI capabilities can be achieved even with weak supervision.
Overall, the results suggest that while basic human supervision may not scale well to superintelligence models, there are ways to significantly improve how well these models learn from less capable supervisors.
The researchers believe their approach could make progress by capturing the inherent difficulties in aligning future superhuman models.
By publishing its findings, OpenAI has encouraged students, academics, and other researchers to contribute to the broad field of superhuman AI alignment. The company has launched a $10 million grant program focused on this issue.
OpenAI develops an evolving AI environment
According to OpenAI, superintelligent AI models that surpass human capabilities could be developed within the next decade. However, managing and directing these sophisticated AI systems poses significant challenges to people.
Existing alignment methods, such as human feedback reinforcement learning (RLHF), rely on human guidance. However, future AI systems will be capable of highly complex and creative behaviors that make them difficult for humans to reliably oversee. Therefore, the company is actively exploring innovative solutions to address the evolving AI development environment.
Recently, OpenAI reportedly announced the release of its latest development, the GPT-4.5 model. The claimed screenshots suggested advanced capabilities encompassing language, audio, vision, video, 3D, complex reasoning, and cross-model understanding. However, Sam Altman, founder of OpenAI, denied these rumors.
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