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EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit

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Re: EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit

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Post by gowld »

josephjacks wrote: post #29
dvt wrote: post #11

Not sure why the AI community has a weird obsession with being non-profit (or not). It's not like non-profits can't be evil, and it's not like OpenAI has done anything particularly egregious, either. What we do need is more weights being released in the public domain (hard to find even on Huggingface), easier ways to train models locally, better pruned models for embedded device inference (e.g. running on a Jetson Na…

Sam doing a 180 on non-profit to for-profit was egregious, IMHO. Having said that, plenty of extremely profitable organizations masquerade (literally and figuratively) as non-profits. Also: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626516035863212034

OpenAI is a nonprofit that ownes a for-profit. Same as Mozilla. OpenAI was never a charity.

A privately owned for-profit company can do whatever it wants, good or evil. OpenAI is not publicly-owned.

Did you donate money to OpenAI?

A nonprofit is an organization that uses its income and profits for the organization's main goal that supports the mission. On the other hand, a charity is a type of nonprofit that engages in activities aimed at improving lives in the communities.

NFL was a non-profit trade association until ignorant whiners made it bad PR and they changed it to shut up the whiners.

Did https://openai.com/about

Re: EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit

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Post by dwringer »

akavi wrote: post #20
spapas82 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's from the greek word for freedom (ελευθερία) then i guess elefther: ele (like electric) f the (like thesis) r.

Where are you getting an /f/ sound from? Edit: Ah, it seems the digraph "ευ" is pronounced /ef/ in Modern Greek, despite (by convention) being transliterated "eu".

Huh, this seems to be the same linguistic phenomenon observed in British English with the word "lieutenant" but perhaps independently evolved.

Re: EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit

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Post by e12e »

1f60c wrote: post #28
spapas82 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's from the greek word for freedom (ελευθερία) then i guess elefther: ele (like electric) f the (like thesis) r.

I'm just going to keep saying YOO-luh-tuhr, thank you very much.

Reminds me of Yog-Sothoth, which would be a great name for an anthropomorphized statistical model...

> Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

Re: EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit

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Post by telotortium »

canjobear wrote: post #38
spapas82 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's from the greek word for freedom (ελευθερία) then i guess elefther: ele (like electric) f the (like thesis) r.

The English convention is to pronounce -eu- in Greek words as /ju/, not /ef/.

Yes, basically Greek words in English are pronounced as Latin loanwords, according to how the Greek words would have been pronounced in Latin around AD 1 (except that ph and th, but not ch, are pronounced as fricatives in English). Greek αυ and ευ were still pronounced as diphthongs at the time.

Re: EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit

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Post by mb7733 »

josephjacks wrote: post #29
dvt wrote: post #11

Not sure why the AI community has a weird obsession with being non-profit (or not). It's not like non-profits can't be evil, and it's not like OpenAI has done anything particularly egregious, either. What we do need is more weights being released in the public domain (hard to find even on Huggingface), easier ways to train models locally, better pruned models for embedded device inference (e.g. running on a Jetson Na…

Sam doing a 180 on non-profit to for-profit was egregious, IMHO. Having said that, plenty of extremely profitable organizations masquerade (literally and figuratively) as non-profits. Also: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1626516035863212034

>Having said that, plenty of extremely profitable organizations masquerade (literally and figuratively) as non-profits.

That's not a contradiction. A non-profit can be profitable. The profit just needs to be reinvested back into the mission of the organization.

Re: EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit

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Post by Dalewyn »

behnamoh wrote: post #6
jackblemming wrote: post #3

They're the real OpenAI! Great team.

If only they had chosen a better name... "Eleuther" is hard to pronounce correctly for someone who doesn't know the word.

One measure of likelihood for success is how well the name rolls off the tongue.

Re: EleutherAI announces it has become a non-profit

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Post by bilsbie »

ftxbro wrote: post #10
behnamoh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If only they had chosen a better name... "Eleuther" is hard to pronounce correctly for someone who doesn't know the word.

how do you pronounce it correctly

I’d been saying E Luther. Is that all wrong?
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