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OpenAI Reports That Narrow Safety Training Generalized Broadly
Researchers say training a model on realistic human situations improved its behavior on unrelated tasks, an emergent generalization claim that needs replication.
OpenAI researchers report a generalization effect in safety training: a model trained on realistic human situations did not only improve in those scenarios but behaved better on unrelated tasks, according to the AI Post channel. The summary…
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