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Learning Day(openai.com)
19 points by gdb 7y ago|2 comments
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by gdb 7y ago
(I wrote the post.) If it's helpful, I dropped out of both schools — the vast majority of my knowledge is self taught!
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by gdb 7y ago
The investment is in OpenAI LP: https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/ !
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by gdb 7y ago
We'll still release quite a lot, and those releases won't look any different from the past. > I understand that keeping some innovations private may help commercialization, which may help raise more funds for OpenAI, getting us
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by gdb 7y ago
(I work at OpenAI.) > It could be doled out over the course of a decade or more. The NYT article is misleading here. We'll definitely spend the $1B within 5 years, and maybe much faster. We certainly do plan to be a big Azure custom
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by gdb 7y ago
OpenAI Nonprofit’s initial funding commitment was to be consumed over many years! When we started, we didn't know just how fast things would be moving (e.g. https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-compute/ ), and we&#x
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by gdb 7y ago
Good feedback, and not what I intended to say. I updated my post.
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by gdb 7y ago
(I work at OpenAI.) It comes down to whether you believe AGI is achievable. We've talked about why we think it might be: https://medium.com/syncedreview/openai-founder-short-term-ag... , https://www.yout
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by gdb 7y ago
> My "guess" is they're offering $1B worth of Azure services. Which costs MSFT probably much less than $1B. It's a cash investment. We certainly do plan to be a big Azure customer though. > My "guess" is
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by gdb 7y ago
Thank you!
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by gdb 7y ago
The OpenAI board remains in charge of OpenAI’s AGI-relevant decisions. Microsoft has the right to appoint one board seat, which they have not yet exercised.
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by gdb 7y ago
(I work at OpenAI.) Quite the opposite — this is an investment!
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Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI(openai.com)
1119 points by gdb 7y ago|592 comments
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by gdb 7y ago
We'll be playing generated MIDI without human filtering or manipulation today (though playing them synthetically of course)! If you know of an orchestra looking for some music, we could do the rest of what you describe :).
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by gdb 7y ago
Not yet, but we plan to release the code & pre-trained model!
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by gdb 7y ago
Tool is embedded in the blog post: https://openai.com/blog/musenet/#try !
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OpenAI Five Training Details(openai.com)
4 points by gdb 7y ago|0 comments
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OpenAI is hiring an engineering/research manager(twitter.com)
1 points by gdb 7y ago
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OpenAI Five Finals(openai.com)
7 points by gdb 8y ago|0 comments
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Implicit Generation and Generalization Methods for Energy-Based Models(openai.com)
10 points by gdb 8y ago|4 comments
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OpenAI Scholars Class of Spring '19(openai.com)
6 points by gdb 8y ago|0 comments
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by gdb 8y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply, it's much appreciated. > you also want the mission statement for people that aren't motivated by money I wouldn't agree with this — we want people who are motivated by AGI going well, and
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by gdb 8y ago
Any returns from OpenAI LP are subject to taxes!
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by gdb 8y ago
(I work at OpenAI.) I think this tweet from one of our employees sums it up well: https://twitter.com/Miles_Brundage/status/110519043405200588... Why are we making this move? Our mission is to ensure AGI benefits
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by gdb 8y ago
Our mission is articulated here and does not change: https://openai.com/charter/ . As we say in the Charter, our primary means of accomplishing the mission is to build safe AGI ourselves. That means raising billions of
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by gdb 8y ago
The Nonprofit has full control, in a legally binding way: https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp/#themissioncomesfirst
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by gdb 8y ago
(I work at OpenAI.) See my tweet about this: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1105173883378851846
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by gdb 8y ago
> If the partner gets a vote/profit then a "charter" or "mission" won't change anything (I work at OpenAI.) The board of OpenAI Nonprofit retains full control. Investors don't get a vote. Some investors
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by gdb 8y ago
The Charter was designed to capture our values, as we thought about how we'd create a structure that allows us to raise more money while staying true to our mission. Some companies to compare with: - Stripe Series A was $100M post-mone
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The OpenAI Mission(blog.gregbrockman.com)
4 points by gdb 8y ago|0 comments

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