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Other peoples Ideas and other peoples money, pretty on topic.
by Zetobal 3y ago
Other peoples Ideas and other peoples money, pretty on topic.
- gumballindie 3y agoIsnt that how most ai is built anyway? Taking what’s not theirs and selling it for profit?
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y agoSomething something greater good
- mopenstein 3y agoIsn't that exactly how humans have been able to progress so far? By standing on the shoulders of others to reach higher and higher lofts? If you don't want your knowledge to be used by machines or man, then you should bottle them up and hide them from both.
- r3d0c 3y ago[flagged]
- lewhoo 3y agoWith an important distinction. No previous generation (obviously) tried to decide that we're done and it's the apes' turn now. I don't know if AGI is a near possibility or not, but if it is then it won't be our children who stand on the shoulders of giants anymore, will it ?
- gumballindie 3y agoNot really, no. Humans progressed by building societies and rules. No society built on theft ever thrived.
- andy99 3y agoIdeas and money are cheap and plentiful. Execution is everything and from what little I know about Altman that seems to be his strength.
- CPLX 3y agoWhat ventures has he executed successfully?
- threeseed 3y agoOpenAI obviously. You can't argue that the company has not been impressively run and not just because of the quality of the models.
- CPLX 3y agoAs far as I can tell his tenure was marked by interpersonal conflict with most of the key players, after which he was suddenly fired amid allegations he was using his role as head of a non profit to advance his own personal interests.
- threeseed 3y agoThis is inside baseball. Nobody other than us care about the inner workings. At the end of the day he is responsible for building a $100b business, with a product users love, that has attracted developers in droves and built a highly successful partnership with Microsoft. And pretty sure the direction of the company is what the issue was. Not any side projects.
- CPLX 3y agoIt’s not a company it’s a non-profit organization with a defined mission. Pretty sure that’s the crux of the problem here. The sort of interesting part of all these comment threads is the unstated assumption that a very fast growing multi billion dollar for profit tech company is an unmitigated “good thing” and anyone getting in the way of that is wrong. Not everyone thinks that or has that as a goal.
- TeaBrain 3y agoHe didn't built OpenAI, which he wasn't a founder of either. By the time he came on as CEO in 2019, they had already built GPT-2, and GPT-3 was likely already well on its way, as it would be released only around a year later.