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I forget, wasn't OpenAI the company that was formed as a nonprofit to limit the risks of LLMs? Founded by a bunch of visionaries scared of what they had wrought
by scrumper 6mo ago
I forget, wasn't OpenAI the company that was formed as a nonprofit to limit the risks of LLMs? Founded by a bunch of visionaries scared of what they had wrought and anxious to lead so they could make sure it was only used responsibly?
- pydry 6mo agoEveryone has a price.
- daveguy 6mo agoCome on now. Let's not pretend it wasn't a grift from the start.
- chii 6mo agoThat was before it was discovered that these LLM have incredible monetary potential.
- scrollop 6mo agoI think Mr Altman had this idea from the beginning, and in his own, "can't stop lying" way, he lied.
- estearum 6mo agoNot really. The entire premise of the structure was that obviously AI would be immensely valuable and that they needed binding contract structures to prevent themselves from falling victim to the greed and ambition that would obviously consume those at the helm. Unfortunately their contract structures weren't strong enough to protect from the combination of the "king of the cannibals" and completely absentee regulatory oversight.
- ghurtado 6mo agoTrust that they already knew long before, and that this was the play all along. And if you don't believe that, do some digging into the lives of the psychopaths that started it.
- kybernetyk 6mo agoLLMs themselves don't. But selling LLM related bullshit to investors has.
- StableAlkyne 6mo agoThe writing was on the wall when they feigned horror at an early GPT being able to play poker in the 2010s, and failed to release the model
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- khalic 6mo agoYeah the whole “rationalist” movement is full of those lying fks that use a thin veneer of fallacious logic and self aggrandising discourse to rationalise their hoarding of resources and bottomless greed. They’re very well established in Bay Area and AI world.
- estearum 6mo agoIs Sam even a rationalist, or describe his views as rationalist?
- khalic 6mo agoNot directly, but very friendly to the movement and people in it.
- estearum 6mo agoLooks to me like the rationalist/AI researcher/EA cohort of (admittedly odd) people was quite deliberately hijacked by a sociopath
- khalic 6mo agoThe movement itself is consistently aligned with Tech Bros interests, the philosophical foundation is interesting, but the movement itself is quite problematic
- ghurtado 6mo agoDepends. Would it lead to increasing his wealth?
- saghm 6mo agoHe was not the founder of OpenAI
- estearum 6mo agonobody was "the" founder of OpenAI. Sam was one of many cofounders, though I don't see how the particulars here are relevant to the point above.
- loveparade 6mo agoNot really, when OpenAI was formed in 2015 there were no LLMs, at least none that worked well. It was a regular AI research lab mostly doing Reinforcement Learning on game environments like Atari similar to DeepMind. Once they struck gold with LLMs (2019 or so?) and saw there is money to made everything changed, as expected when a bunch of SV types get involved.
- nottorp 6mo agoThey were lying through their nose even then?
- neya 6mo agoRule #1: Never trust a company with "Open" in only their name and is anything but, in real.
- haritha-j 6mo agoDon't feel bad, they forgot too.