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Other peoples Ideas and other peoples money, pretty on topic.

>>Zetoba+(OP)
Isnt that how most ai is built anyway? Taking what’s not theirs and selling it for profit?

>>gumbal+K
Something something greater good

>>Zetoba+(OP)
Ideas and money are cheap and plentiful. Execution is everything and from what little I know about Altman that seems to be his strength.

>>gumbal+K
Isn't that exactly how humans have been able to progress so far? By standing on the shoulders of others to reach higher and higher lofts?

If you don't want your knowledge to be used by machines or man, then you should bottle them up and hide them from both.

>>andy99+r3
What ventures has he executed successfully?

>>andy99+r3
The ideas that led to OpenAI’s technologies were not plentiful. They were the product of a handful of brilliant researchers, who correctly structured OpenAI to prevent them from being co-opted by people who are incapable of ever having them.

>>andy99+r3
Got a citation for him DOING anything other than talking?

>>CPLX+Z3
OpenAI obviously.

You can't argue that the company has not been impressively run and not just because of the quality of the models.

>>threes+u6
As far as I can tell his tenure was marked by interpersonal conflict with most of the key players, after which he was suddenly fired amid allegations he was using his role as head of a non profit to advance his own personal interests.

>>mopens+B3
With an important distinction. No previous generation (obviously) tried to decide that we're done and it's the apes' turn now. I don't know if AGI is a near possibility or not, but if it is then it won't be our children who stand on the shoulders of giants anymore, will it ?

>>CPLX+E7
This is inside baseball. Nobody other than us care about the inner workings.

At the end of the day he is responsible for building a $100b business, with a product users love, that has attracted developers in droves and built a highly successful partnership with Microsoft.

And pretty sure the direction of the company is what the issue was. Not any side projects.

>>threes+Mc
It’s not a company it’s a non-profit organization with a defined mission.

Pretty sure that’s the crux of the problem here.

The sort of interesting part of all these comment threads is the unstated assumption that a very fast growing multi billion dollar for profit tech company is an unmitigated “good thing” and anyone getting in the way of that is wrong.

Not everyone thinks that or has that as a goal.

>>threes+u6
He didn't built OpenAI, which he wasn't a founder of either. By the time he came on as CEO in 2019, they had already built GPT-2, and GPT-3 was likely already well on its way, as it would be released only around a year later.

>>mopens+B3
Not really, no. Humans progressed by building societies and rules. No society built on theft ever thrived.

>>TeaBra+Th
He wasn't technically a founder but was there since day one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai

>>andy99+r3
> Execution is everything and from what little I know about Altman that seems to be his strength.

when has he "executed"?

he seems to have had four jobs:

1. a failed startup founder 1. a YC person handing out other people's money 1. openai ceo 1. a horrific cryptocurrency grift

which do you feel he "executed" so impressively on?