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The OpenAI Path

OpenAI-adjacent posts, launches, reflections, and notes from the part of the archive where the future keeps getting product names.

6 waypoints 4 years Average severity 2.5 / 5
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    Severity 4 / 5: Cave Inscription

    The Merge

    A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075....

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    Severity 3 / 5: Cartographic Incident

    Reinforcement Learning Progress

    Today, OpenAI released a new result. We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning algorithm invented by OpenAI, to train a team of 5 agents to play Dota and beat semi-pros....

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    Severity 2 / 5: Archive Goblin

    GPT-4o

    There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price)....

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    Severity 2 / 5: Archive Goblin

    Reflections

    The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning....

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    Severity 2 / 5: Archive Goblin

    Sora update #1

    We have been learning quickly from how people are using Sora and taking feedback from users, rightsholders, and other interested groups. We of course spent a lot of time discussing this before launch, but now that we have a product out we can do more than just theorize....

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    Severity 2 / 5: Archive Goblin

    Sora 2

    We are launching a new app called Sora. This is a combination of a new model called Sora 2, and a new product that makes it easy to create, share, and view videos. This feels to many of us like the “ChatGPT for creativity” moment, and it feels fun and new....