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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. bagels+va[view] [source] 2023-11-20 08:41:31
>>quotem+l2
How is it decided that "AGI" has arrived?
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6. quotem+Fb[view] [source] 2023-11-20 08:46:50
>>bagels+va
The OpenAI nonprofit board does, AIUI. That means OpenAI can, in theory, cut off everything from this day forward (by declaring GPT-5 or whatever as "AGI"), but they can't cut off access to GPT-4.
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