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OpenAI's board is largely a group of people who have zero skins on the wall. They got their positions by being related or married to people and being born with an entire fucking cupboard of silverware shoved in every orifice on their bodies.
Even Altman was born rich and managed to fail upwards until he didn't. All hail the guy with ten thousand shots at success, everybody.
If OpenAI ends up a shell of a company with billions in cloud GPU credits, in some ways merging makes a lot of sense?
It would be funny if they agreed to the merger and then mass resigned to join Microsoft also.
And then repeat with quora merger and another mass exodus.
Or they could just outsource keeping the lights on to a consulting company like ibm or Accenture or oracle.
Unfortunately there won’t be a happy ending. Just like there was no happy ending with Java.
Why in the hell, in light of all of this nonsense, would I ever trust a startup with my money? OpenAI's board is largely a group of people who have zero skins on the wall. They got their positions by being related or married to people and being born with an entire fucking cupboard of silverware shoved in every orifice on their bodies. Even Altman was born rich and managed to fail upwards until he didn't. All hail the…
Can literally anyone provide even a 0.001% plausible sounding reason as to why this all was started in the first place? Nothing makes sense.
How would such a merger be good for AI safety? A combined OpenAI-Anthropic would collectively own 6 out of the top 6 LLM's on the chatbot arena leaderboard [0] which would seem to be somewhat monopolistic. This would result in less choice for us developers. Isn't it better to have the top two AI firms both upholding AI safety as a core principle? To me this weakens the original argument they had for sacking Sam in th…
(I'm saying this as someone that doesn't believe in AI safety as a worthwhile goal)
Can literally anyone provide even a 0.001% plausible sounding reason as to why this all was started in the first place? Nothing makes sense.
Remember, this company was founded, 8 years ago, with Sama writing “Why You Should Fear Machine Intelligence.”
Although vaguely possible, there’s something else to the story as Emmett Shear said “The board did not remove Sam over any specific disagreement on safety, their reasoning was completely different from that.”
Can literally anyone provide even a 0.001% plausible sounding reason as to why this all was started in the first place? Nothing makes sense.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
And
"Meetings : None of us is as dumb as all of us."