The seven most shambolic things that happened in AI today.
We recorded 2 claims from this post. 2 were checked against evidence. 4 more are held. Read the post at its source.
Claims from this post (2)
In the order they appear in the post. Each quotation is the speaker’s words in this post. A label such as “Supported” or “Can’t be checked” is the claim’s current assessment; its page has the evidence and the reasons.
Assessment: UnresolvedSaid
“OpenAI was driven by competition to drop its prices by 80%.”
What we tested: Competitive pressure drove OpenAI to cut its prices by 80%.
Assessment: SupportedSaid
“MIT Technology Review reported new, disturbing adventures in jailbreaking”
What we tested: MIT Technology Review reported new jailbreaking adventures, which Marcus calls disturbing.
What happened: Will Douglas Heaven's July 30 article reports methods for inducing models to bypass restrictions, including forged reasoning text. The event being assessed is publication; the quoted technique's earlier discovery does not change that date. (MIT Technology Review, )
Held from this post (4)
These records did not pass every check, so nothing about them is published. Held is not a finding.
- The record does not meet the current rules. Our reading, not assessed: Leopold Aschenbrenner's high-flying hedge fund Situational Awareness suffered a dramatic downfall, which Marcus describes as hubris-fueled and hyper-leveraged.
- The two reviews reached different assessments. Our reading, not assessed: AI scientist systems still aren't adequate, especially at open-ended research, as reported by Narayanan and colleagues.
- Attribution is uncertain
- Attribution is uncertain