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[return to "Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft"]
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1. lannis+E[view] [source] 2023-11-20 08:00:12
>>JimDab+(OP)
Listen.

I was confused when the whole thing was going down.

I was more confused when the whole "board wants to backtrack and maybe resign" thing was going down.

I got even more confused when Emmett Shear was announced as the CEO.

...but never in a hundred years would I have imagined "haha just join Microsoft" as an actual alternative.

I remain, confused.

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2. quotem+01[view] [source] 2023-11-20 08:01:29
>>lannis+E
By joining Microsoft, they retain access to all the data, weights, and infrastructure they had at OpenAI. They don't have to start from scratch and ramp up. They can start up right where they left off.
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3. xiwenc+U1[view] [source] 2023-11-20 08:05:34
>>quotem+01
Care to elaborate? Microsoft funding OpenAI doesn’t grant them right to just grab intellectual properties.
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4. quotem+l2[view] [source] 2023-11-20 08:07:10
>>xiwenc+U1
Microsoft's deal with OpenAI grants Microsoft access to OpenAI's technology --- at least until AGI arrives
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5. mullin+w6[view] [source] 2023-11-20 08:23:16
>>quotem+l2
This is like a spacecraft research nonprofit working on faster than light travel promising Boeing 100% of the rights to any of their technology that's sub-light speed. I give even odds that they'll never achieve "AGI," or when it happens it'll be an incremental gain made by simply wiring existing technologies together that'll be obvious to any engineer competent in the field and thus easily duplicated.
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