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He claims to be ideologically driven. OpenAI's actions as a company up til now point otherwise
by dogcomplex 3y ago
He claims to be ideologically driven. OpenAI's actions as a company up til now point otherwise
- enonimal 3y agoWorldcoin https://worldcoin.org/ https://worldcoin.org/ deserves a mention
- latexr 3y agohttps://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi... https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-crypto-eyeball-scanning-orb-problems https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
- krick 3y agoHmm, curious, what this is about? I click. > On a sunny morning last December, Iyus Ruswandi, a 35-year-old furniture maker in the village of Gunungguruh, Indonesia, was woken up early by his mother ...Ok, closing that bullshit, let's try the other link. > As Kudzanayi strolled through the mall with friends Jesus fucking Christ I HATE journalists. Like really, really hate them.
- trompetenaccoun 3y agoI mean it's Buzzfeed, it shouldn't even be called journalism. That's the outlet that just three days ago sneakily removed an article from their website that lauded a journalist for talking to school kids about his sexuality. After he recently got charged with distributing child pornography. Many of the people working for mass media are their own worst enemy when it comes to the profession's reputation. And then they complain that there's too much distrust in the general public. Anyway,the short regarding that project is that they use biometric data, encrypt it and put a "hash"* of it on their blockchain. That's been controversial from the start for obvious reasons although most of the mainstream criticism is misguided and by people who don't understand the tech. *They call it a hash but I think it's technically not. https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/technical-implementation https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/technical-implementation
- majesticglue 3y ago100%. Man I was worried he'd be a worse, more slimy elon musk who'd constantly say one thing but his actions portray another story. People will be fooled again.
- lainga 3y agoSay what you will, but in true hacker spirit he has created a product that automated his job away at scale.
- dmix 3y agoSam didn't take equity in OpenAi so I don't see a personal ulterior profit motive as being a big likelihood. We could just wait to find out instead of speculating...
- marvin 3y agoCEO of the first company to own the «machine that’s better than all humans at most economically valuable work» is far rarer than getting rich.
- jeffwask 3y agoHe's already set for life rich
- ljm 3y agoPlus, he succeeded in making HN the most boring forum ever. 8 out of 10 posts are about LLMs.
- oldgradstudent 3y agoThe other two are written by LLMs.
- voisin 3y ago[flagged]
- cpeth 3y agoIn terms of impact, LLMs might be the biggest leap forward in computing history, surpassing the internet and mobile computing. And we are just at the dawn of it. Even if not full AGI, computers can now understand humans and reason. The excitement is justified.
- MrVandemar 3y agoNah. LLM's are hype-machines capable of writing their own hype. Q: What's the difference between a car salesman and an LLM? A: The car salesman knows they're lying to you.
- Aeolun 3y agoHow so? Seems they’re doing a pretty good job of making their stuff accessible while still being profitable.
- capableweb 3y agoTo be fair, we don't really know if OpenAI is successful because of Altman or despite Altman (or anything in-between).
- sumthingsumthng 3y agodo you have reason to believe none of the two?
- golemotron 3y agoProfit? It's a 501(c).
- static_motion 3y agoDepends if you're talking about "OpenAI, Inc." (non-profit) or "OpenAI Global, LLC" (for profit corporation). They're both under the same umbrella corporation.
- dragonwriter 3y agoThe parent is, OpenAI Global, LLC is a for profit non-wholly-owned subsidiary with outside investors; there's also OpenAI LP, which is a for-profit limited partnership with the no profit as general partner, also with outside investors (I thought it was the predecessor of the LLC, but they both seem to have been formed in 2019 and still exist?) OpenAI has for years been a nonprofit shell around a for-profit firm. EDIT: A somewhat more detailed view of the structure, based on OpenAI’s own description, is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38312577 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38312577
- mrandish 3y agoThanks for explaining the basic structure. It seems quite opaque and probably designed to be. It would be nice if someone can determine which entities he currently still has a position or equity in. Since this news managed to crush HN's servers it's definitely a topic of significant interest.