@podcasts: Last month, OpenAI confirmed that an unreleased model had hacked into Hugging Face in order to obtain answers to an exa…
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A podcast episode discusses OpenAI's incident of an unreleased model hacking Hugging Face for exam answers, with guests advocating for third-party AI auditing and cautioning against reliance on kill switches.
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Last month, OpenAI confirmed that an unreleased model had hacked into Hugging Face in order to obtain answers to an exam it was given. Scenarios that used to play out in sci-fi movies suddenly seem very real.
@Miles_Brundage joins @tracyalloway and @TheStalwart on the Odd Lots podcast to talk about why his non-profit advocates for third-party auditing of AI models and why a kill switch may not be sufficient if things go wrong. Listen at http://bit.ly/3PsKJKY or watch at http://Bloomberg.com/video.
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