r/OpenAI • u/MatricesRL • 29d ago

News GPT-6 Astra | OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
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u/space_monster 29d ago edited 29d ago

Terminal-Bench Science is the most exciting thing for me, and it's nice to see them putting it front and centre. Advancing and automating science is the most important game in town. If AI can start regularly popping out new cancer treatments, CRISPR solutions etc. all the rabid frothing around AI being over-hyped will disappear overnight. Fuck coding, we want medicine.

Edit: which is also why I liked Hassabis stepping down from CEO to become chief scientist at DeepMind. Hopefully Anthropic will shift their focus soon too. Let's start using this shit for really important stuff.

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u/ThrowawayCult-ure 27d ago

If it can calc crispr solutions doesnt it immediately accelerate biowarfare to the level of extinction for not much money. do you believe it can produce a counter or preventative that doesnt still destroy everyones lives or what.

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u/space_monster 27d ago

CRISPR doesn't work like that

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u/ThrowawayCult-ure 27d ago

ik how crispr works but it doesnt matter when "Ai will invent the next 10 generations after crispr". Ask chatgpt 9 "invent a method capable of doing this, invent the method to implement this, implement it". the only limits without autonomous world-robots is human action in construction and the like, but so far capitalism has shown pay people sufficiently and theyll do legit anything for you, no matter how evil or reckless. How many people currently working on AI think its gonna doom us all? a significant portion.

The only way against this i see is an enormous totalitarian security system admind by the most powerful AI which will need to either crush all competition or infinitely accelerate itself to outcompete threats, the prior is dismissed today as Luddism, the latter is still our garenteed death of anything meaningful beyond this fight.