OpenAI
Opinions about OpenAI and its mission
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what OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind have all tried to do is raise billions & tap vast GPU resources of tech giants without having the resulting tech de facto controlled by them. I'm arguing the OpenAI fracas show that might be impossible.
My guess is that watching the keynote would have made the mismatch between OpenAI's mission and the reality of its current focus impossible to ignore. I'm sure I wasn't the only one that cringed during it.
I think the mismatch between mission and reality was impossible to fix.
Jeremy Howardtwitter.com
With the release of Codex, however, we had the first culture clash that was beyond saving: those who really believed in the safety mission were horrified that OAI was releasing a powerful LLM that they weren't 100% sure was safe. The company split, and Anthropic was born.
Jeremy Howardtwitter.comOpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say
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Internally at OpenAI, insiders say that disagreements had emerged over the speed at which Altman was pushing for commercialization and company growth, with Sutskever arguing to slow things down. Sources told reporter Kara Swisher that OpenAI's Dev Day event hosted November 6, with Sam front and center in a keynote pushing consumer-like products was... See more
Benj Edwards • Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
@TF_Global The future of AI is a topic that deserves careful rational thought, not half-baked opinions and tribalism. I would advise against thinking in terms of something as silly as “factions.”
Yishantwitter.com@TF_Global Now, Sam is one of those unstoppable forces so he may very well soon enlist other backers and leave but… for now it looks like OpenAI split into two, and Microsoft has managed to seize both halves.
Yishantwitter.comDetails emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
Benj Edwardsarstechnica.com
A good summary of the OpenAI news.