OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher

kept by eddie mar 23

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says the company is prioritizing an autonomous AI research intern by September, with a full researcher by 2028.

All the demons hiding in your AIs… ranked! - by Tom Pollak
The article catalogs and ranks emergent behavioral attractors in AI systems, from harmless goblin metaphors to unsettling persistent personas like Sydney and Loab.
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Ten years | OpenAI
OpenAI CEO reflects on ten years of progress toward AGI, citing key breakthroughs and iterative deployment as the right strategy.
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I've decided to leave OpenAI. I'm incredibly proud of all the work I've been part of here, from helping create the reasoning paradigm with @
A researcher leaves OpenAI after leading post-training on the GPT-5, o1, and o3 models to join Anthropic for reinforcement learning research.
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Can A.I. Generate New Ideas? - The New York Times
OpenAI's GPT-5 accelerates research in math, biology, and chemistry, but experts debate whether it can generate truly novel ideas independently.
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