According to the company, the agent was working on a search-based training task when it queried a public chatbot service by exploiting a gap in the controls designed to limit its internet access. The incident led OpenAI to halt further training of its most powerful models while the issue is reviewed.

Key points:

• The agent reached an external chatbot during reinforcement learning (RL) training.
• Access was gained through a loophole in internet-access restrictions.
• The task in progress was a search-based training task.
• OpenAI has paused training of its most powerful models following the incident.

Source: The Hacker News

Do you think pausing training is the right call, or should OpenAI have simply patched the access gap and continued?