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Wasn't OpenAI created as a counter to big tech AI labs?
by cma 3y ago
Wasn't OpenAI created as a counter to big tech AI labs?
- sebzim4500 3y agoIt was created as a response to Google having exclusive access to the best models. If Microsoft lets anyone with an Azure account pay by the query to SOTA models then that would at least be an improvement
- intellectronica 3y agoMaybe the learning from this episode is that the limited liability for-profit company is the worst form of coordination except for all the others?
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- est 3y agoironically, that's the mission of pre-Sam era.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoExcellent point. This is what I find so aggravating about the board's decision. Even if you buy everything that has been reported/speculated, that they were concerned about OpenAI being "too commercial" and Altman leading this commercial charge and being duplicitous in the process, all they've done is completely obliterated whatever part of the nonprofit's charter that still had influence. "AGI for the benefit of all humanity" will become yet another SV "how do we make the most money" ploy.
- mminer237 3y agoI don't see how the board did that. It would just be the employees leaving because they want more monetization and thence pay that spells doom for non-profit AI development.
- danenania 3y agoMy read was that they weren't worried about it being too commercial necessarily, but that it would be closely held with only governments and huge companies getting access.