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Perhaps you could argue that he wants to stick with Sam and the others because if they start a company that competes with OpenAI, there’s a real chance they cat
by MattRix 3y ago
Perhaps you could argue that he wants to stick with Sam and the others because if they start a company that competes with OpenAI, there’s a real chance they catch up and surpass OpenAI. If you really want to be a voice for safety, it’ll be most effective if you’re on the winning team.
- Closi 3y agoDepends how much research is driven by Ilya…
- I_am_uncreative 3y agoI dunno, the moat Sam tried to build might make it hard to make a competitor.
- jatins 3y agoWe are about to find out if the moats are indeed that strong. xAI recently showed that training a decent-ish model is now a multi-month effort. Granted GPT-4 is still farther along than others but curious how many months/resources does that add up when you have the team that built it in the first place But also, starting another LLM company might be too obvious a thing to do. Maybe Sam has another trick up his sleeve? Though I suspect he is sticking with AI one way or the other
- thekoma 3y agoOne funny detail is that the OpenAI charter states that, if this happens, they will stop their own work and help the organisation that is closest to achieving OpenAI's stated goal.
- aryamaan 3y agoreally?
- thekoma 3y agohttps://openai.com/charter https://openai.com/charter Second paragraph of the "Long-term safety" section.
- trallnag 3y agoMaybe Sam wants to build something for profit?
- cma 3y agoBut now it may be the regulations they've gotten in place will make it harder for any new upstarts to approach them.
- visarga 3y ago> If you really want to be a voice for safety, it’ll be most effective if you’re on the winning team. If an AI said that, we'd be calling it "capability gain" and think it's a huge risk.