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What OpenAI really wants

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i highlighted this last night which seems to be making the rounds - https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1699369076529971545

Alec's CV (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alecradford/) seems to be:

- 2011-2016 BSc Eng from Olin College

- 2013+ started a data/AI consultancy as a sophomore that turned into a vague startup/product?

- 2015 first paper on GANs coauthored with soumith https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06434.pdf%C3

- 2016 first GAN paper under openai email https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2016/file/8...

- 2017 the generative reviews paper mentioend in the Wired article, with Ilya https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01444.pdf

- 2017 coauthor on PPO paper (precursor to instructgpt/rlhf) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.06347.pdf).

- 2018 lead author on GPT1 https://www.mikecaptain.com/resources/pdf/GPT-1.pdf

- 2019 lead author on GPT2 https://insightcivic.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/language-mod... blog https://openai.com/research/better-language-models

- 2019 coauthor on RLHF https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08593.pdf)

- 2020 coauthor on gpt3 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

- 2020 coauthor on scaling laws https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361.pdf%E4%B8%AD%E5%BE%97%E5%88...

- 2021 coauthor on DallE http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/ramesh21a/ramesh21a.pdf

- 2021 coauthor on Codex https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.03374.pdf?trk=public_post_comment...

- 2023 lead author on Whisper https://proceedings.mlr.press/v202/radford23a/radford23a.pdf

name a more successful 7 year CS career post undergrad...

Update: FYI openai just announced a "developer day" in Nov - somehow not blessed by the HN gods https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37408234

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> What OpenAI really wants 1. Get lots of users; 2. monetize everything; 3. go public; 4. sell all shares and get super rich?

That's if they are not ambitious. Might also be trying to become the new Google, or at least put the O in MANFANGO.

Jesus, can we find a phrase like "tech giants", rather than changing the acronym according to the stock market?

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post #5

i highlighted this last night which seems to be making the rounds - https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1699369076529971545 Alec's CV ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/alecradford/ ) seems to be: - 2011-2016 BSc Eng from Olin College - 2013+ started a data/AI consultancy as a sophomore that turned into a vague startup/product? - 2015 first paper on GANs coauthored with soumith https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06434.pdf%C3 - 2016 f…

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> The air crackles with an almost Beatlemaniac energy as the star and his entourage tumble into a waiting Mercedes van. They’ve just ducked out of one event and are headed to another, then another, where a frenzied mob awaits. As they careen through the streets of London—the short hop from Holborn to Bloomsbury—it’s as if they’re surfing one of civilization’s before-and-after moments. The history-making force personified inside this car has captured the attention of the world. Everyone wants a piece of it, from the students who’ve waited in line to the prime minister.

A lot of words for saying absolutely nothing regarding the topic. And the article goes on like this. Thanks for nothing.

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> What OpenAI really wants 1. Get lots of users; 2. monetize everything; 3. go public; 4. sell all shares and get super rich?

That's if they are not ambitious. Might also be trying to become the new Google, or at least put the O in MANFANGO.

Lol I did always wonder how Netflix qualified for FAANG but little ol' Microsoft didn't.
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