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> vs OpenAI which... Just ships things). Sam Altman practicing what he preached at YC for so many years. There's something wholly respectable about someone who
by vagrantJin 4y ago
> vs OpenAI which... Just ships things).
Sam Altman practicing what he preached at YC for so many years. There's something wholly respectable about someone whose words closely match their actions.
And haven't we all been better for it?
- machina_ex_deus 4y agoA reminder that there's nothing open about OpenAI. Stable diffusion is open. OpenAI started spewing morality nonsense once they got something they could capitalize on. From supposedly non profit when there was no profit to be made to fake moral high ground, to becoming completely closed. Hardly "practice what you preach". They may have delivered technologically, but they have completely backtracked on their openess promises. I ran stable diffusion at home. Never could do the same with anything out of "Open"AI
- simonw 4y ago"nothing open" doesn't fully hold up there: Whisper is a (somewhat ground breaking) model released by OpenAI that you can run on your own hardware.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoThey are open about their methods and goals, not open source.
- vagrantJin 4y ago> Hardly "practice what you preach". My comment was about Sam Altman doing what he was telling startups to do for many years at YC, ie - ship product and iterat