OpenAI Conference at KITP

There was a conference held at KITP the week before last entitled Intermediate-Scale AI for Physics. The nature of this conference was somewhat of a mystery. As far as I can tell it never appeared in the list of forthcoming KITP conferences, and the minimal webpage for the conference had no list of speakers, no schedule of talks, and nothing about how to register to attend (at least going by the pre-conference version of the page on the Wayback Machine). Today a schedule with some video appeared, making a lot clearer what this was all about. In Nathaniel Craig’s introduction he briefly explains that all six of the organizers are now working for OpenAI (Dan Roberts as an employee, himself, Xiaoling Qi, Eva Silverstein, Andy Strominger, and Xi Yin as visiting scientists), but “this is not an OpenAI program”. As far as I can tell, that’s the only place where the relation of the program and its organizers to OpenAI was mentioned publicly. In trying to understand what some group of…

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