3 ms·
OpenAI is a non-profit research organisation. It's for-profit (capped-profit) subsidiary exists solely to be able to enable competitive compensation to its res
by ytoawwhra92 3y ago
OpenAI is a non-profit research organisation.
It's for-profit (capped-profit) subsidiary exists solely to be able to enable competitive compensation to its researchers to ensure they don't have to worry about the opportunity costs of working at a non-profit.
They have a mutually beneficial relationship with a deep-pocketed partner who can perpetually fund their research in exchange for exclusive rights to commercialize any ground-breaking technology they develop and choose to allow to be commercialized.
Aggressive commercialization is at odds with their raison d'être and they have no need for it to fund their research. For as long as they continue to push forward the state of the art in AI and build ground-breaking technology they can let Microsoft worry about commercialization and product development.
If a CEO is not just distracting but actively hampering an organisation's ability to fulfill its mission then their dismissal is entirely warranted.
- craignatic 3y ago[flagged]
- RuggedPineapple 3y agoEven a non-profit needs to focus on profitability, otherwise it's not going to exist for very long. All 'non-profit' means is it's prohibited from distributing its profit to shareholders. Ownership of a non-profit doesn't pay you. The non-profit itself still wants and is trying to generate more then it spends.
- ytoawwhra92 3y agoI addressed that concern in my third paragraph.
- fuzztester 3y ago>They have a mutually beneficial relationship with a deep-pocketed partner who can perpetually fund their research in exchange for exclusive rights to commercialize any ground-breaking technology they develop and choose to allow to be commercialized. Isn't this already a conflict of interest, or a clash, with this: >OpenAI is a non-profit research organisation. ?
- logifail 3y ago> ? "OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company" https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai
- dagaci 3y agoIt seems Microsoft was totally blind-sided by this event. If true then Trillion$+ Microsoft will now be scruitinizing the unpredictability and organizational risk associated with being dependant on the "unknown-random" + powrerful + passionate Illya and board who are vehemently opposed to the trajectory lead by altman. One solution would be to fork OpenAI and its efforts, one side with the vision lead by Illya and the other Sam.
- nprateem 3y agoI don't think you know what intellectual property is.
- dagaci 3y agoIt seems you have jumped to many conclusion's in your thinking process without any prompting in your inference. I would suggest lowering your temperature ;)
- nprateem 3y agoOne doesn't simply 'fork' a business unless it has no/trivial IP, which OpenAI does not.
- dagaci 3y agoForked: https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1726509045803336122 https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1726509045803336122 "to lead a new advanced AI research team" I would assume that Microsoft negotiated significant rights with regards to R&D and any IP.
- nprateem 3y agoI wouldn't call starting from zero forking
- 3y ago
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- mikotodomo 3y agoYeah! People forget who we're talking about here. They put TONS of research in at an early stage to ensure that illegal thoughts and images cannot be generated by their product. This prevented an entire wave of mental harms against billions of humans that would have been unleashed otherwise if an irresponsible company like Snap were the ones to introduce AI to the world.