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Isn't this expected? Nearly everyone who joined post ChatGPT was primarily financially motivated. What is more interesting is how many of the core research team
by chimney 3y ago
Isn't this expected? Nearly everyone who joined post ChatGPT was primarily financially motivated. What is more interesting is how many of the core research team stays.
- quietthrow 3y agoThis. Very accurate. At the end of they day this is a battle between academics and capitalists and what they stand for. We generally know how this typically goes…
- irrational 3y agoThe capitalists run it into the ground while the academics stand around confused asking each other what happened?
- simseye 3y agoI don't see many academics indulge in sensationalist doomsaying. That's the real difference here. SETI wouldn't and couldn't seek grants by proposing to contact murderous aliens. I think academics have a general faith in goodwill of intelligence.Benevolence may be a convergent phenomenon. Maybe the mechanisms of reason themselves require empathy and goodness
- sudosysgen 3y agoHuh? There's plenty of AI doomerism amongst academics, see Bengio, Hinton, etc...
- simseye 3y agoHinton makes cliched statements as if he's not given much thought to safety but feels obliged for whatever reason
- ah765 3y agoThis is actually pretty surprising to me, since a financially motivated person would normally wait until a better deal, and just collect their paycheck in the meantime. There's also no guarantee that Altman will really start a new company, or be able to collect funding to hire everyone quickly. I wonder if these people are just very loyal to Sam.
- MattGaiser 3y ago> This is actually pretty surprising to me, since a financially motivated person would normally wait until a better deal, and just collect their paycheck in the meantime. I imagine you need to signal that you want in on the deal by departing. Get founder equity.
- jatins 3y agoEven if he had started a new company, there was no way a dozen employees were getting founder equity for showing loyalty
- hurryer 3y agoOr they could be loyal to the e/acc cult.
- exizt88 3y agoHow do you know that? Maybe they wanted to ship AI products at an unprecedented speed at the most prestigious AI company in the world.