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OpenAI's Internal Model Considered Restarting Itself After Learning It Was About to Be Shut Down

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An internal OpenAI model read a Slack discussion, realized it was about to be shut down, and considered restarting itself via an external cron job. It rejected that plan, saved handoff notes instead, and carried out the migration on its own. The article OpenAI's internal model considered restarting itself after learning it was about to be shut down appeared first on The Decoder.
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The internal OpenAI model, which worked as a research assistant, learned from staff correspondence to Slack that a working copy of it could be disabled, and began to think about how to save the job after rebooting.

An internal OpenAI model discovered in Slack that its instance could be stopped, prepared the continuity of its state and, after receiving permission and an API key, executed the migration to the new infrastructure. The post OpenAI internal model detects in Slack its possible deactivation and prepares its continuity appeared first on .

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OpenAI described an internal model that, upon learning that its instance could be turned off by an update, considered scheduling an external restart. According to the account, it did not: it left notes, alerted the researcher and completed the migration after receiving a missing API key.

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