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Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission

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Re: Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission

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Is everyone now believing that AGI is within reach? This scrambling to have a non profit based structure is odd to me. They clearly want to be a for profit company, is this the threat of Elon talking?

It’s a really idiosyncratic and very subtle, intelligent, calculated imperative called “want yacht.”

Re: Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission

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Is everyone now believing that AGI is within reach? This scrambling to have a non profit based structure is odd to me. They clearly want to be a for profit company, is this the threat of Elon talking?

I think it's entirely a legal dodge to pretend that they aren't gutting the non-profit mission.

Re: Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission

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Maybe I’m missing it in this article or elsewhere on the website, but how exactly is OpenAI’s vision of making AGI going to “benefit humanity as as a whole”?

I’m not asking to be snarky or imply any hidden meaning…I just don’t see how they plan on getting from A to B.

From this recent press release the answer seems to be: make ChatGPT really good and offer it for free to people to use. Which is a reasonable answer, I suppose, but not exactly one that matches the highfalutin language being used around AGI.

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