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Why I Joined OpenAI

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Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

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To answer a few people at once: I did mention compensation as a factor in the post, but I didn't elaborate details, so easy to miss. Comp is important of course, but so are the other factors. It feels like I can't go for a day without reading about the cost of AI datacenters in the news, and I can do something about it.

I feel like I can do something about something too but no one is picking me to do anything about anything.

Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

#73

To answer a few people at once: I did mention compensation as a factor in the post, but I didn't elaborate details, so easy to miss. Comp is important of course, but so are the other factors. It feels like I can't go for a day without reading about the cost of AI datacenters in the news, and I can do something about it.

>Did fixing it from the inside work for any of those other issues?

No, it never does. Those people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but...it might just work for us.

Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

#74

To answer a few people at once: I did mention compensation as a factor in the post, but I didn't elaborate details, so easy to miss. Comp is important of course, but so are the other factors. It feels like I can't go for a day without reading about the cost of AI datacenters in the news, and I can do something about it.

Turn them off!

Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

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post #12

> She was worried about a friend who was travelling in a far-away city, with little timezone overlap when they could chat, but she could talk to ChatGPT anytime about what the city was like and what tourist activities her friend might be doing, which helped her feel connected. She liked the memory feature too, saying it was like talking to a person who was living there. This seems rather sad. Is this really what AI i…

> And we do not need gigawatts and gigawatts for this use case anyway. A small local model or batched inference of a small model should do just fine. I guess I'm a dinosaur but I think emailing the friend to ask what they are actually up to would be even better than involving an LLM to imagine it. Asynchronous human to human communication is a pretty solved problem.

A common cited use case of LLMs is scheduling travel, so being able to pretend it’s somebody somewhere else is for sure important to incentivize going somewhere!

Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

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post #4

> ...it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet There's something that doesn't sit right with me about this statement, and I'm not sure what it is. Are you sure you didn't just join for the money? (edit: cool problems, too)

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Firstly, you would do well to read the guidelines about avoiding snark, and then actually say whatever it is you’re trying to say rather than make insinuations. As is, this response comes across as a very shallow read. It’s hard to get to the root of what you’re actually saying in your post other than it quotes two paragraphs about how it’s not fun to push through the bureaucracy of a large organisation, which - I would agree. Probably most people who’ve worked at a big company would.

So why does that make him a “big shot”? Are you perhaps envious of him?

Why does openAI deserve him or anyone? Hard to say.

Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

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I think OpenAI will IPO at 1T. I don’t want to say bubble but it could be one of these stocks super hyped that never goes anywhere after the IPO(I.e airbnb during Covid)

I believe that OpenAI wants to IPO at that valuation. I don’t think it can IPO.

Re: Why I Joined OpenAI

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post #12

> She was worried about a friend who was travelling in a far-away city, with little timezone overlap when they could chat, but she could talk to ChatGPT anytime about what the city was like and what tourist activities her friend might be doing, which helped her feel connected. She liked the memory feature too, saying it was like talking to a person who was living there. This seems rather sad. Is this really what AI i…

I use it as something to talk to about incredibly nerdy and/or obscure things no one else would be willing to talk about.

That’s honestly just sad. Not the fact you doing it, but rather the fact you have nobody to talk to about those things.
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