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What OpenAI really wants

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Re: What OpenAI really wants

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post #45

Let's not romanticize business too much, they want money.

The Open AI corporation is owned by a non-profit.

Open Ai is a cash grab that's shitting on everything the open source movement used to stand for. They have single handedly done more damage to the open source ecosystem in 4 years than Microsoft did in 40.

Re: What OpenAI really wants

#65
post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Open AI corporation is owned by a non-profit.

Open Ai is a cash grab that's shitting on everything the open source movement used to stand for. They have single handedly done more damage to the open source ecosystem in 4 years than Microsoft did in 40.

Can you say more? It sounds like you're referring to more than just the contamination of the word "open".

Re: What OpenAI really wants

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post #49

"A Wealth of Information produces a Poverty of Attention" The real need is an efficient allocation of Attention. That has not been solved. And is far away from being solved if you pay attention to the kind of things people pay attention too today. What is apparent is OpenAI is run by totally clueless mindlessly ambitious one dimensional buffoons.

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Re: What OpenAI really wants

#68
post #45

Let's not romanticize business too much, they want money.

The Open AI corporation is owned by a non-profit.

Irrelevant. The non-profit is controlled by the same people, and only existed to class their massive startup capital as 'donations.'

Re: What OpenAI really wants

#69
Parking what you might think of OpenAI There is something to be said about an organisation that is so mission focussed as them, yes many firms will claim to be but seems this is so deeply engrained in their people as well as their contracts!

Re: What OpenAI really wants

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post #51

> Riding with Altman, I can almost hear the ringing, ambiguous chord that opens “A Hard Day’s Night”—introducing the future. Last November, when OpenAI let loose its monster hit, ChatGPT, it triggered a tech explosion not seen since the internet burst into our lives. Suddenly the Turing test was history, search engines were endangered species, and no college essay could ever be trusted. No job was safe. No scientific…

Saying that ChatGPT sucks after trying only the free version is like saying that pizza sucks after trying only the frozen pizza because you don't want to spend $20 on a pizza in a good Italian restaurant.

I think he's saying he can't justify keeping the subscription.

I'm in the same boat - whenever I think it would be faster to use chatgpt it usually ends up being a waste of time and flow breaker. And it got worse over time. At some point a few months ago I realized I haven't used it once in a month, so why keep paying ?

Copilot is way more useful to me.

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