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The name "OpenAI" is a contraction since they don't seem "open" in any way. The only way I see "open" applying is "open for business."
by mrinterweb 2y ago
The name "OpenAI" is a contraction since they don't seem "open" in any way. The only way I see "open" applying is "open for business."
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoI went to Burger King and there was no royalty working there at all!
- croes 2y agoBut Burger King didn't claim once to be royalty.
- yard2010 2y agoDid their CEO insist on hearings that they are part of the royal family? Also - is Burger King a nonprofit organization? They just want to feed the people? Saviors of the human kind?
- batch12 2y agoHow can you be so sure? I've seen a documentary that detailed the experiences of a prince from abroad working in fast food after being sent to the US to get some life experience before getting married. Maybe it's more common than you think.
- codetrotter 2y agoPrince Akeem of the nation of Zamunda! :D
- esafak 2y agoYou're thinking of McDowell's.
- esafak 2y ago"A person or thing preeminent in its class" https://www.dictionary.com/browse/king https://www.dictionary.com/browse/king
- infecto 2y agoWill this ever die? It feels like every time a post is made about OpenAI that someone loves to mention it.
- throwaway314155 2y ago[flagged]
- codetrotter 2y agoWas throwaway314159 already taken, or was the misspelling accidental?
- throwaway314155 2y agoIt was taken. I decremented by 1 until it wasn't taken.
- codetrotter 2y agoI guess we will eventually arrive at pi being exactly equal to 3 after all, then!
- aleph_minus_one 2y agoWhy not 2.99999999998? ;-)
- batch12 2y agoNo, it will probably never die. It is reinforced by the dissonance between their name and early philosophy and their current actions.
- Asraelite 2y agoIt should though, it's a stupid way to phrase the argument. OpenAI pivoted from non-profit to for-profit and it's fine to criticize them for that, if that's the argument you're making. But focusing on their name specifically doesn't make sense. I mean, what do you expect, that they rebrand to something else and lose a ton of brand recognition in the process? You can't possibly expect a company do that when they have no incentive to.
- owenpalmer 2y agoThey have several open models, including Whisper.
- selfhoster11 2y agoThey shared a bunch of breadcrumbs that fell off the banquet table. Mistral and Google, direct competitors, actually published a lot of goodies that you can actually use and modify for hobbyist use cases.
- paulddraper 2y agoApple isn't a fruit company.
- varenc 2y agoThis is a tired and trite comment that appears on every mention of OpenAI but contributes little to the discussion.
- programjames 2y agoI think the purpose is to shift public sentiment? I lot of people in the free software world are justifiably upset over ClosedAI's marketing tactics.
- varenc 2y agoShifting public sentiment seems a worthy goal, but this particular comment ("OpenAI?? more like ClosedAI amirite") gets repeated so often I don't think its doing anything. It shows up on every mention of OpenAI but has no bearing to the particular piece of news being discussed. I think there's lots of more productive ways to critique and shift public sentiment around OpenAI. But maybe I'm just grouchy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- RivieraKid 2y agoWhat percentage of people who use their products care? 1%? OpenAI is a brand, not a literal description of the company!
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago> OpenAI is a brand, not a literal description of the company! If the brand name is deeply contradictory to the business practices of the company, people will start making nasty puns and jokes, which can lead to serious reputation damages for the respective company.
- infecto 2y agoI think generally zero business damage in name. Only a vocal minority like to cry about it.
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago> Only a vocal minority like to cry about it. A very vocal minority can often have quite some influence on the majority. See for example the Wikipedia article on "Minority influence": > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_influence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_influence
- infecto 2y agoIf you have evidence that’s happening in the case of OpenAI. Let me know. Wiki link is useless.
- RivieraKid 2y ago99% of people don't care. Also, they are in some sense open, ChatGPT is openly available and they're capped-profit.
- programjames 2y agoFar, far more than 1% of people care. Sure, they are open in one sense: for business. But in the tech world, "open" specifically means showing us how you got your final product. It means releasing source code rather than just binaries (even free binaries!), or sharing protocols and standards rather than keeping them proprietary (looking at you Apple and HDMI). It doesn't matter if anyone can use ChatGPT, that has nothing to do with being open.
- sumedh 2y agoI believe Sam has answered that question its open to public, anyone in the world can use ChatGpt for free so its "open"
- mardifoufs 2y agoReminds me of OpenText, which is basically a software sweatshop with the most closed source ecosystems you could think of