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(I work at OpenAI.) > It could be doled out over the course of a decade or more. The NYT article is misleading here. We'll definitely spend the $1B within 5 y

by gdb 7y ago

(I work at OpenAI.) > It could be doled out over the course of a decade or more. The NYT article is misleading here. We'll definitely spend the $1B within 5 years, and maybe much faster. We certainly do plan to be a big Azure customer though!

tosh 7y ago
Thanks for the clarification gdb! excited about the announcement.
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lelima 7y ago
>>"We certainly do plan to be a big Azure customer though!" That's great, one question where can I use GYM or universe in the cloud with the render() option. I've spend many hours trying to set up the environment in cloud [1] without success. [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40195740/how-to-run-openai-gym-render-over-a-server/48237220 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40195740/how-to-run-open...
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- pastafarianist 7y ago
  Check out this example: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/yandexdataschool/Practical_RL/blob/81981aa/week01_intro/seminar_gym_interface.ipynb https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/yandexdataschool/Practic...
choppaface 7y ago
How does the funding structure, employee comp / incentives, and licensing compare to Deepmind?
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elcomet 7y ago
Are you planning to open offices in Europe? Paris and London are hosting better and better AI ecosystems.
iamcreasy 7y ago
Probably a bit off topic here, I was wondering if you could shade some light on why Elon Musk parted away from OpenAI. On Twitter he said he disagreed on what OpenAI wanted to do. Could you please tell me more on that? It seems what OpenAI is doing is pretty great.
- jv22222 7y ago
  This might help answer that: - https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Elon-Musk-quit-OpenAI-Is-he-afraid-of-AI-change https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Elon-Musk-quit-OpenAI-Is-he-af... - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-17/elon-musk-left-openai-on-disagreements-about-company-pathway https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-17/elon-musk...
  - dmix 7y ago
    Seems like an entirely reasonable choice. He’s actively commercializing AI and doesn’t want any impression of conflict of interest. Especially as now OpenAI has some clear commercialization plans directly with Microsoft. From the article: > The most obvious way to cover costs is to build a product, but that would mean changing our focus. Instead, we intend to license some of our pre-AGI technologies, with Microsoft becoming our preferred partner for commercializing them. Talent will be the hardest challenge for OpenAI in order to reach their goals.
- davej 7y ago
  Sam Altman is on record saying that they asked him to leave because he recruited talent from OpenAI for his other companies. Sam seemed quite philosophical about it though and was complimentary to Musk otherwise. It doesn't sound like there was a ton of bad blood there.
  - reeves23423 7y ago
    Is this the response you are referring to Sam Altman being on record https://openai.com/blog/openai-supporters/ https://openai.com/blog/openai-supporters/ ?
samstave 7y ago
Gosh, its going to be so interesting to see a fabric of AI exist over the next decades across various cloud infra... Will they fight? Azure AI layers and say private company AIs like FBs (Ono Sendai), GCP, AWS, etc... where these AIs start learning how to protect themselves from attack.... Obv it super trivial for API mods to the FW/Access rules in all these systems... so it will be trvial for them to start shutting down access (we have had this for decades, but it will be interesting to see it at scale.)
randomsearch 7y ago
Will this be $1 billion in cash, or in Azure credits?
- marvin 7y ago
  Cash investment, pointed out elsewhere in the thread.
onefuncman 7y ago
> (I work at OpenAI.) Can you do an AI CTF like the Stripe distributed systems CTF sometime?
- julien_c 7y ago
  We should build one ourselves, actually. That's a terrific idea.
KingFelix 7y ago
Greetings! I have some questions! Since you work for OpenAi, are you looking at actual brain processes at all? I read the article and understand you guys will be a big customer with Azure, I wonder if you guys will be conducting some brain research though. I believe for AGI to happen we need to understand the brain. I work with Cerebral Organoids, Consciousness studies, physics (quantum), Love to share / connect, we are currently launching the Cerebral Organoids into space today! SpaceX rocket, 6pm EST, there are some thunderstorms so we're hoping there aren't any further delays. DM me? https://www.spacex.com/webcast https://www.spacex.com/webcast
- KingFelix 7y ago
  Space launch has been moved to tomorrow 6pm EST;

by gdb 7y ago

tosh 7y ago

Thanks for the clarification gdb! excited about the announcement.

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lelima 7y ago

>>"We certainly do plan to be a big Azure customer though!" That's great, one question where can I use GYM or universe in the cloud with the render() option. I've spend many hours trying to set up the environment in cloud [1] without success. [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40195740/how-to-run-openai-gym-render-over-a-server/48237220 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40195740/how-to-run-open...

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pastafarianist 7y ago
Check out this example: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/yandexdataschool/Practical_RL/blob/81981aa/week01_intro/seminar_gym_interface.ipynb https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/yandexdataschool/Practic...

choppaface 7y ago

How does the funding structure, employee comp / incentives, and licensing compare to Deepmind?

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elcomet 7y ago

Are you planning to open offices in Europe? Paris and London are hosting better and better AI ecosystems.

iamcreasy 7y ago

Probably a bit off topic here, I was wondering if you could shade some light on why Elon Musk parted away from OpenAI. On Twitter he said he disagreed on what OpenAI wanted to do. Could you please tell me more on that? It seems what OpenAI is doing is pretty great.

jv22222 7y ago
This might help answer that: - https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Elon-Musk-quit-OpenAI-Is-he-afraid-of-AI-change https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Elon-Musk-quit-OpenAI-Is-he-af... - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-17/elon-musk-left-openai-on-disagreements-about-company-pathway https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-17/elon-musk...
- dmix 7y ago
  Seems like an entirely reasonable choice. He’s actively commercializing AI and doesn’t want any impression of conflict of interest. Especially as now OpenAI has some clear commercialization plans directly with Microsoft. From the article: > The most obvious way to cover costs is to build a product, but that would mean changing our focus. Instead, we intend to license some of our pre-AGI technologies, with Microsoft becoming our preferred partner for commercializing them. Talent will be the hardest challenge for OpenAI in order to reach their goals.
davej 7y ago
Sam Altman is on record saying that they asked him to leave because he recruited talent from OpenAI for his other companies. Sam seemed quite philosophical about it though and was complimentary to Musk otherwise. It doesn't sound like there was a ton of bad blood there.
- reeves23423 7y ago
  Is this the response you are referring to Sam Altman being on record https://openai.com/blog/openai-supporters/ https://openai.com/blog/openai-supporters/ ?

samstave 7y ago

Gosh, its going to be so interesting to see a fabric of AI exist over the next decades across various cloud infra... Will they fight? Azure AI layers and say private company AIs like FBs (Ono Sendai), GCP, AWS, etc... where these AIs start learning how to protect themselves from attack.... Obv it super trivial for API mods to the FW/Access rules in all these systems... so it will be trvial for them to start shutting down access (we have had this for decades, but it will be interesting to see it at scale.)

randomsearch 7y ago

Will this be $1 billion in cash, or in Azure credits?

marvin 7y ago
Cash investment, pointed out elsewhere in the thread.

onefuncman 7y ago

> (I work at OpenAI.) Can you do an AI CTF like the Stripe distributed systems CTF sometime?

julien_c 7y ago
We should build one ourselves, actually. That's a terrific idea.

KingFelix 7y ago

Greetings! I have some questions! Since you work for OpenAi, are you looking at actual brain processes at all? I read the article and understand you guys will be a big customer with Azure, I wonder if you guys will be conducting some brain research though. I believe for AGI to happen we need to understand the brain. I work with Cerebral Organoids, Consciousness studies, physics (quantum), Love to share / connect, we are currently launching the Cerebral Organoids into space today! SpaceX rocket, 6pm EST, there are some thunderstorms so we're hoping there aren't any further delays. DM me? https://www.spacex.com/webcast https://www.spacex.com/webcast

KingFelix 7y ago
Space launch has been moved to tomorrow 6pm EST;