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This announcement completes the betrayal of their founding principles. "Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit h
by avaer 7mo ago
This announcement completes the betrayal of their founding principles.
"Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return."
- Not advancing digital intelligence
- While locking people into a superapp
- Because they are further constrained to generating financial returns
- class3shock 7mo agoFounding principles = initial marketing strategy
- pattt 7mo agoIs there a way out of this though? The seed is already planted and everything else is just a PR.
- sharts 7mo agoNot too dissimilar from what most companies that start prioritizing growth also do, unfortunately.
- ajam1507 7mo agoThat was before they knew AI needed a bunch of money.
- Breza 7mo agoI'm not excusing Altman's many many lies, but it is worth noting how many algorithmic advances in the past 20 years were made with relatively little computing power. Think of things like xgboost (2016). A modest computer can run a pretty big dataset on CPU. When Tensorflow was launched in 2015, I played with it on an ancient laptop and it worked just fine. Then I upgraded to a mobile workstation and was still able to keep up with many SOTA models. Turns out LLMs are massively more power hungry than most earlier algorithms, even in NLP.