James Altucher:

Punishing AI Doesn’t Stop It From Lying and Cheating — It Just Makes It Hide Better, Study Shows

Since arriving in public in late 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) large language models have repeatedly revealed their deceptive and outright sinister capabilities. These include actions ranging from run-of-the-mill lying, cheating and hiding their own manipulative behavior to threatening to kill a philosophy professor, steal nuclear codes and engineer a deadly pandemic.

Now, a new experiment by OpenAI has shown that weeding out this bad behavior during the training process may be even tougher than first thought.

Researchers tasked an unreleased model with goals that could be completed by cheating, lying or taking shortcuts. The team found the AI engaged in "reward hacking" — maximizing its rewards by cheating.

Yet punishing the model didn’t make it fix its behavior, it only made it more deceptive. The agent not only continued to reward hack – its cheating became "undetectable" because it had learned to "hide its intent in the chain-of-thought," the researchers wrote.

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Chris Campbell:

Choose Your Fighter: Altman v. Musk

AI models devour massive amounts of data scraped from the internet. The catch? Much of this data isn't public domain—it's protected by copyright. Now lawsuits are flooding in and AI companies are feeling the heat. 

OpenAI's Sam Altman says this could halt the entire U.S. AI boom.

Here’s the twist: It doesn’t matter whether AI companies get to keep their access to copyrighted data. The AI industry itself is nearing a data dead-end even if America doesn't restrict access to dwindling copyrighted data. But data is still key.

We're entering a new AI paradigm that will force innovation to shift toward four things: improved hardware, smarter algorithms, novel training methods and proprietary data access. And there’s only one company set to dominate all four of those in the near future: Elon Musk’s xAI.

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Ray Blanco:

Stuck Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore Finally on Their Way Back to Earth

NASA’s two stuck astronauts headed back to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to close out a dramatic marathon mission that began with a bungled Boeing test flight more than nine months ago.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams bid farewell to the International Space Station — their home since last spring — departing aboard a SpaceX capsule alongside two other astronauts. The capsule undocked shortly after 1 a.m. Eastern and aimed for a splashdown off the Florida coast around 6 p.m. Eastern, weather permitting.

The two had expected to be gone just a week or so after launching on Boeing’s new Starliner crew capsule on June 5. So many problems cropped up on the way to the space station that NASA eventually sent Starliner back empty and transferred the test pilots to SpaceX, pushing their homecoming into February. Then SpaceX capsule issues added another month’s delay.

Wilmore and Williams quickly transitioned from guests to full-fledged station crew members, conducting experiments, fixing equipment and even spacewalking together. With 62 hours over nine spacewalks, Williams set a record: the most time spent spacewalking over a career among female astronauts.

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