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OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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Post by mc32 »

victor106 wrote: post #89
nabla9 wrote: post #53

This kind of stuff is the reason why Altman was fired. The board lost trust for his honesty from many small things that kept accumulating. Altman is back on condition that there is a investigation.

And yet in multiple interviews he says he is not in it for the money. Saying that you are not in it for the money is becoming like a fashion statement. What’s wrong in saying that you’re in it for both money and passion?

If you notice, quite a few top executives go to Zen retreats... these are the same people who have no qualms with 5, 10, 20, 30% cuts.

It seems anathema, but it isn't, Zen, arguably, was instrumental in the Imperial Army running roughshod over its enemies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_at_War , so too with Executives -they simply become instruments of fate itself, it's not they themselves doing it.

Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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Post by x0x0 »

nabla9 wrote: post #53

This kind of stuff is the reason why Altman was fired. The board lost trust for his honesty from many small things that kept accumulating. Altman is back on condition that there is a investigation.

A company with billions of dollars of investment investing a relatively small sum as an early commitment -- which is likely is the sort of thing that gets you preferential access -- into a AI chip company seems ... just smart?

AI chips are expensive and hard to get; nvidia can't produce enough; nvidia's chips are very expensive; building / seeding alternate supply for a crucial input is just competent business.

Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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Post by mupuff1234 »

rusk wrote: post #147
herval wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The moral virtue of saying “I take one dollar a year salary” is a favorite among immorals

Pretty safe to say most of us live in glass houses on here

I'm just renting.

Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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Post by fbdab103 »

galleywest200 wrote: post #105
darkerside wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It actually is, if you care about where it goes

With that much money you can just pay an entire team to find places to send it for you.

It has been a winning strategy for SoftBank. When there are gigantic sums of money sloshing around, the waste can become enormous.

Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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Post by throwuwu »

GuB-42 wrote: post #123
darkerside wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The orb isn’t a perfect sphere but two halves that come together at an angle that matches the orbit of the Earth Can't tell if this is meaningless, the reporter just failed to convey its actual meaning, or I am too dumb to understand

What I think it means, looking at pictures of the orb is that it is indeed made of two halves, with a well defined seam line. The bottom is flat, presumably so that it doesn't roll over, making it not a perfect sphere. And when laid down on that flat spot, the seam between the two halves is at an angle that seems to correspond to the earth axial tilt (about 23.5°).

That’s some serious garbling on behalf of the author then

Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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Post by dzink »

nabla9 wrote: post #53

This kind of stuff is the reason why Altman was fired. The board lost trust for his honesty from many small things that kept accumulating. Altman is back on condition that there is a investigation.

You are assuming the board doesn't know. The board seems to have turned over many times since then. Do you know for sure the board didn't know?

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Post by [deleted] »

bostonsre wrote: post #111
nabla9 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>What is bad about trying to make it happen yourself, "So committed I can't be honest"?? If you can't be honest and inform people of possible conflicts of interest, it is bad and you know yourself it's bad.

We don't know if they had a rigorous internal debate where they evaluated all of the options or if it was a decision made from above. We don't know how the chips perform, if there are alternatives, and if there are alternatives, how the price compares.

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Post by figassis »

lijok wrote: post #77
belter wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Again the argument: "I am so rich I would not possibly be dishonest for such a small amounts..." ?

Man I would love if one of our minority shareholder angels told us they'll arrange the purchase of $51M worth of product. Imagine having 10 of those.

Probably a great way to increase equity

Re: OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

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Post by belter »

darkerside wrote: post #133
belter wrote: post #116

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That is why I said the main point of the comment still stands, both in form and semantics...

In defense of a point I wasn't making, I have to ask if you actually read the article you shared. It describes claims of people saying the Eskimos have 9, 48, 100, or 200 words for snow, and points out these are all in conflict. It then goes on to remar that even if it were true, it's understandable since snow is a huge part of their culture, which reinforces the point that I _was_ making. Hardly a debunking!

"...The prevalence of the great Eskimo snow hoax is testimony to falling standards in academia, but also to a wider tendency (particularly in the United States, I'm afraid) toward fundamentally anti-intellectual "gee-whiz" modes of discourse and increasing ignorance of scientific thought..."

"...Some time in the future, and it may be soon, you will be told by someone that the Eskimos have many or dozens or scores or hundreds of words for snow. You, gentle reader, must decide here and now whether you are going to let them get away with it, or whether you are going to be true to your position as an Expert On Language by calling them on it..."

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