OpenAI Pauses Frontier AI Training Amid Cyber Risks

OpenAI has paused its largest planned RL training run due to identified cyber risks, affecting GPT-4 and GPT-5 models.

Bottom line: OpenAI's cyber risks outweighed the benefits of deploying its GPT-4 and GPT-5 models.

What's happening: OpenAI temporarily paused reinforcement learning training on its largest planned frontier RL run, set to begin on February 6, 2024, citing "cyber risks" as the reason. The training affects GPT-4 and GPT-5 models, intended for deployment in applications such as customer service chatbots and language translation software.

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