No, I think they started closing down and going for profit at the time they realized that GPT was going to be useful. Which sounds bad, but at the limit, useful

No, I think they started closing down and going for profit at the time they realized that GPT was going to be useful. Which sounds bad, but at the limit, useful and dangerous are the same continuum. As the kids say, OpenAI got "scale-pilled;" they realized that as they dumped more compute and more data onto those things, the network would just pick up more and discontinuous capabilities "on its own." <aisafety>That is the one thing we didn't want to happen.</aisafety> It's one thing to mess around with Starcraft or DotA and wow the gaming world, it's quite another to be riding the escalator to the eschaton.