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• OpenAI's In-House Initiative Explores Stopping an AI From Going Rogue - With More AI

  17-12-2023 21:17 via slashdot.org
  MIT Technology Review reports that OpenAI "has announced the first results from its superalignment team, the firm's in-house initiative dedicated to preventing a superintelligence — a hypothetical future computer that can outsmart humans — from going rogue."Unlike many of the company's announcements, this heralds no big breakthrough. In a low-key research paper, the team describes a technique that lets a less powerful large language model supervise a more powerful one — and sug
  
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• 'Life May Have Everything It Needs to Exist on Saturn's Moon Enceladus'

  17-12-2023 01:19 via science.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN:Scientists have long viewed Saturn's moon Enceladus, which harbors an ocean beneath its thick, icy shell, as one of the best places to search for life beyond Earth. Now, a new analysis of data collected by NASA's Cassini mission, which orbited Saturn and its moons between 2004 and 2017, has uncovered intriguing evidence that further supports the idea of Enceladus as a habitable ocean world.Enceladus initially captured the attention of scientists in
  
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