official announcement here: https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition
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announcement's title "openai announces leadership transition" is at the top, with surprised pikachu face at bottom. on top of pikachu, text reads, "not even Sam could prevent losing his job to AI."
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Why?
At its current level of capability, an unaligned GPT-4/5 could cause harm to humanity
Current open models are closing in on GPT-4. The real magic is in models fine-tuned in a specific field, not generalist models.