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Yeah, I misspoke earlier. Although nobody has actual power on paper, public and investor pressure can be just as influential.
by mirzap 3y ago
Yeah, I misspoke earlier. Although nobody has actual power on paper, public and investor pressure can be just as influential.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoCould Microsoft not hire Sam (reporting directly to Satya) and those who departed and equip them with compute access and ancillary resources? It seems less of a lift than salvaging the OpenAI situation internally due to the emotions and politics involved, non competes not existing in California (broadly speaking), and the logistics of attempting to apply pressure to a 501c3 board with very little leverage. The value is in the team, many who are now free agents. Parting ways with OpenAI might be the only option if the org remains firm on the direction it has chosen. Build internally to reach capability parity and then accelerate ahead of them while slowly rolling out of the agreement with OpenAI, reallocating those previously committed resources internally. “Due to the actions of OpenAI’s board, Microsoft had no choice but defend its investment in this revolutionary technology.” The pr wire writes itself.
- Kye 3y agoThere's already a Microsoft Sam.
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- LightMachine 3y agoEven if they could, why would Sam accept it? The smartest move for Sam is to just start his own for-profit company, easily raise a fuckton of money, hire all the talents from OpenAI and carry on with whatever he was doing. I think this is OpenAI's loss more than anything else. Now if the reason is truly a push against Sam's for-profit direction, I wonder if OpenAI will back it up by releasing their models to the public again. That would be world-changing, specially if the successor to GPT-4 is already trained.
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- toomuchtodo 3y agoIt’s a fair point, and I suppose the question is the math around the equity potential of a new org built from scratch vs being issued a boatload of Microsoft equity, the future profit potential from that grant, while being able to walk right in to a fully operationalized env.
- sanp 3y agoSam and the board have realized the existing structure of OpenAI does not make them (Sam, board, investors) as wealthy as a for-profit structure would. This is the start of winding down OpenAI. I will not be surprised at all if Sam does what you have said and some members of the existing board invest.
- voisin 3y ago> The pr wire writes itself. Technically speaking, only because PR has been replaced by ChatGPT :-)
- seanmcdirmid 3y ago> Technically speaking, only because PR has been replaced by ChatGPT :-) It only appears like that because PR writing has become careful and systematic, which is the kind of writing ChatGPT does very well.
- angoragoats 3y ago> It seems less of a lift I’ve seen this expression a lot recently and it baffles me. The word you are looking for is “effort,” or if you prefer adjectives, maybe something like “difficult.”
- Kye 3y agoThis will blow your mind but English has endless dialects and minor variations. This is like complaining that someone calls soda pop or says y'all.
- macintux 3y agoEnglisc must ðêos hwierfan
- orand 3y agoSpoken like a true language hypergrowth apologist.
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- angoragoats 3y agoI’m aware, but this phrase seems to be more meaningless corporate-speak than regional dialect or variation. The only purpose of phrases like this is to make the speaker sound smart at the cost of obfuscating what they mean.
- CPLX 3y agoThere aren’t investors. It’s a non profit. Everyone seems to have lost their mind missing this point.