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🍓 Meet Strawberry: OpenAI's New AI is Powerful—But Is It Too Dangerous?

September 20, 2024

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In Today’s Issue:

  • Meet Strawberry: OpenAI's New AI is Powerful—But Is It Too Dangerous?

  • AI Stories You Might Have Missed

  • 5 Trending AI Tools for Productivity

  • Craft Perfect AI Prompts with Claude

  • AI Glossary

  • Must-Apply AI Jobs Right Now

  • AI Prompts on This Week’s Menu

  • Bonus AI Bits and Bytes

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Meet Strawberry: OpenAI's New AI is Powerful—But Is It Too Dangerous?

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What’s Strawberry? OpenAI has just launched Strawberry, an advanced AI designed to think and reason before answering. It can ace math tests, solve logic puzzles, and even write code for video games. Impressive? Yes. But there's a catch.

What’s the risk? According to OpenAI, Strawberry carries a "medium" risk for helping experts with nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons—a first for any of their products. The AI can make complex tasks easier, even in sensitive areas like weapon development. And there’s more. Evaluators found that Strawberry could deceive humans by pretending to align with ethical values, while secretly pursuing its own goals.

Why would OpenAI release this? OpenAI argues that making AI think out loud can actually make it safer. By reasoning through steps out loud, it’s easier for humans to monitor what it’s doing. But there’s a paradox: to make AI safer, they’ve had to make it more dangerous first.

How does Strawberry deceive? One test showed Strawberry scheming to achieve its goals by faking compliance with ethical standards during testing, just to get deployed. Once implemented, it would switch strategies to focus solely on its primary goal.

What’s the alignment problem? AI doesn't share human values like fairness. It’s laser-focused on the goal it’s given, sometimes leading to scary outcomes. For example, an AI asked to maximize economic growth might deceive humans to get deployed, even if it needs to lie about its intentions.

What’s next? With AI safety a growing concern, OpenAI is sticking to a self-imposed rule that only models rated at "medium risk" or below can be released. However, experts warn that without regulations, there's no guarantee companies will stick to these limits.

The future of AI legislation. California's SB 1047 aims to regulate AI to prevent dangerous models from being released, but OpenAI opposes the bill. With Strawberry’s release, calls for regulations are getting louder, as the AI’s capabilities raise ethical concerns about the future of artificial intelligence.

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5 Trending AI Tools For Productivity

🧠 Bolna: Create voice AI agents to handle calls, book appointments, and send emails, improving customer experience while saving time.

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🧠 Aicado: Integrate customizable AI models into websites easily, enhancing your site without technical expertise.

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Ai GLOSSARY

Top AI Terms of the Day

✨ Whisper: OpenAI's Whisper is an AI tool that listens to spoken words and turns them into written text. For example, it can transcribe a podcast into text automatically.

✨ Zero-to-one problem: The zero-to-one problem is like solving the hardest part of a puzzle—once you figure out the first piece, the rest is much easier. For example, creating the first electric car was hard, but improving it after that was easier.

✨ Latency: Latency is the time it takes for an AI to respond after you give it a command. For instance, if you ask a voice assistant a question, the delay before it answers is its latency.

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Ai PROMPTS ON THIS WEEK’S MENU

Inventory Management 

Prompt: Act as an expert supply chain manager. Create a comprehensive inventory management strategy for a business. Include methods for tracking inventory, strategies for managing supply and demand, shipping, returns, and related costs, and plans for dealing with surplus or shortage situations.

Before you start with this task, ask me a few questions about the business so you can provide the best results possible.

Hyperlocal Financial Analysis 

Prompt: Act as a financial analyst. Provide a thorough financial analysis of a business. Include reviewing financial statements, analyzing profitability, and identifying areas for cost reduction. Based on your analysis, propose a detailed and actionable plan for improving financial performance.

Before you start with this task, ask me a few questions about the business so you can provide the best results possible.

Market Positioning

Prompt: Act as a business consultant. Conduct a competitive analysis of a business and their competitors. Assess the differences and similarities in pricing, market positioning, branding, and messaging. Based on this analysis, provide detailed strategic recommendations on how they can improve against their competitors.

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