@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.
@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.”
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
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.
“There was a long period of time where the right thing for [Isaac] Newton to do was to read more math textbooks, and talk to professors and practice problems ... that’s what our current models do,” said Altman, using an example a colleague had previously used.
But he added that Newton was never going to invent calculus by simply reading about... See more