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Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by DrBurrito »

xgolwks wrote: post #386

What the other commenters are forgetting is that this is the same Sam Altman who planned and executed the extraction of Reddit from Condé Nast. This acquisition (and the Windsurf acquisition) are all-stock deals, which have the added benefit of reducing the control the nonprofit entity has over the for profit OpenAI entity. How do you extract the for profit entity out of the hands of a nonprofit? - Step 1: you have c…

My understanding is that there are two types of stock, and the non profit controls the voting stock majority. This cannot be diluted. All other stock gives a (capped) fraction of the profits. This cannot be diluted by these operations, but the cap also can be a bad deal.

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Post by hadlock »

alabastervlog wrote: post #191
qgin wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If we’re talking about the singularity robot takeover fast takeoff, maybe that’s true. But Sam and others have said they see AGI is an uneven process that may not have a clear finish line. The intelligence is spiky and some parts will be superhuman while other parts lag.

Dude just says whatever he thinks will make Line Go Up on his accounts. It's basically the only thing he does.

"Make Line Go Up, but without humans" might be the best definition of AGI i've seen so far

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Post by tgma »

neves wrote: post #421
xgolwks wrote: post #386

What the other commenters are forgetting is that this is the same Sam Altman who planned and executed the extraction of Reddit from Condé Nast. This acquisition (and the Windsurf acquisition) are all-stock deals, which have the added benefit of reducing the control the nonprofit entity has over the for profit OpenAI entity. How do you extract the for profit entity out of the hands of a nonprofit? - Step 1: you have c…

One of the most informative posts here. I thought that since Altman's coup the no profit status wouldn't be a problem.

It's interesting I posted exactly this hypothesis an hour or so ago and immediately got flagged despite not being manifestly offensive or anything. Very suspicious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054452

Re: OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

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Post by polynomial »

franze wrote: post #406
karaterobot wrote: post #30

Sometimes two collaborators make each other better than either are alone. I get the sense that's how Steve Jobs and Jony Ive were. I've not seen anything Ive has done since be as good as what he did before. Someone has to hold the spike so the other one can swing the hammer. My guess is that's not how this relationship with Altman will work. And that picture is terrifying, please take it down and destroy the camera t…

the photo is a play on a historical image https://imgur.com/a/VnTMINR

Is that really supposed to be Zuck with an older version of himself??

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Post by whatshisface »

yccomments wrote: post #512
whatshisface wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it sounds like the CEO of OpenAI wants to use investor's money to buy his other company. Too bad we can't short it or otherwise stop it, because investment for the things we could start will dry up once the world figures this out. We're all correlated to companies like FTX whether we like them or not...

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You're too late for that to be a prediction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain)

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Post by qingcharles »

nickrubin wrote: post #7

OpenAI announcement: https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/

The video is horrible.

It uses the same overhype playbook from the Segway launch: "Oh, I used the [unnamed, unexplained] device and it was the most amazing thing in the whole of human history!" "This object will cause the entire planet to be redesigned around it!"

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Post by brap »

xgolwks wrote: post #386

What the other commenters are forgetting is that this is the same Sam Altman who planned and executed the extraction of Reddit from Condé Nast. This acquisition (and the Windsurf acquisition) are all-stock deals, which have the added benefit of reducing the control the nonprofit entity has over the for profit OpenAI entity. How do you extract the for profit entity out of the hands of a nonprofit? - Step 1: you have c…

Sam also ran a crypto scam called WorldCoin. Their secret sauce was tricking poor people in Africa.

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Post by OsrsNeedsf2P »

haunter wrote: post #501
catigula wrote: post #452

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is interesting given that reddit has gone from a cultural powerhouse to something most people talk about shamefully, if at all.

>something most people talk about shamefully, if at all Only if you go there for rage bait content. Small subs are better than ever. And no Lemmy is not an alternative.

> And no Lemmy is not an alternative.

Which is sad - I've been using Lemmy exclusively for 5ish years now and the smaller communities haven't really taken root. Reddit still controls the long tail of internet discourse

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