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[return to "OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be: closed-source and for-profit"]
1. mellos+pe[view] [source] 2023-03-01 10:46:59
>>isaacf+(OP)
This seems an important article, if for no other reason than it brings the betrayal of its foundational claim still brazenly present in OpenAI's name from the obscurity of HN comments going back years into the public light and the mainstream.

They've achieved marvellous things, OpenAI, but the pivot and long-standing refusal to deal with it honestly leaves an unpleasant taste, and doesn't bode well for the future, especially considering the enormous ethical implications of advantage in the field they are leading.

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2. ripper+yr[view] [source] 2023-03-01 12:38:21
>>mellos+pe
To quote Spaceballs, they're not doing it for money, they're doing it for a shitload of money.
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3. 93po+7N[view] [source] 2023-03-01 14:52:52
>>ripper+yr
OpenAI, if successful, will likely become the most valuable company in the history of the planet, both past and future.
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4. teeker+WX[view] [source] 2023-03-01 15:55:27
>>93po+7N
Really? I feel like they'll go the way of Docker, but faster: Right now super hot, nice tools/API, great PR. But it's build on open and known foundations, soon GPTs will be commodity and then something easier/better FOSS will arise. It may take some time (2-3 years?) but this scenario seems most likely to me.

Edit: Ah didn't get the "reference", perhaps indeed it will be the last of the tech companies ever indeed, at least one started by humans ;).

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5. startu+ib1[view] [source] 2023-03-01 16:48:00
>>teeker+WX
Possible. Coding as we know it might get obsolete. And it is a trillion dollar industry.
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6. fsckbo+hV1[view] [source] 2023-03-01 19:51:53
>>startu+ib1
> Coding as we know it might get obsolete. And it is a trillion dollar industry.

freeing up that many knowledge workers to do other things will grow the economy, not shrink it, a new industrial revolution

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7. mitthr+0e2[view] [source] 2023-03-01 21:22:57
>>fsckbo+hV1
Yes; hopefully they get good at working with their hands.
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8. Camper+Eh2[view] [source] 2023-03-01 21:43:58
>>mitthr+0e2
Well, yes, because then maybe I won't have to pay $250/hour to have my car fixed.
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