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Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]

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Post by arvid-lind »

dave1010uk wrote: post #7
embedding-shape wrote: post #4

Not feeling like 1 hour of my Sunday is worth listening to this, do anyone have the non-clickbait answers to the two "previews" mentioned in the description? > Greg explains how the original Napa offsite produced the three-step technical plan OpenAI has followed for a decade and the real reason OpenAI had to abandon its pure nonprofit structure What was the technical plan and what was the "real reason" they couldn't…

1. Solve reinforcement learning. 2. solve unsupervised learning. 3. gradually tackle more complicated things. > what was the "real reason" they couldn't achieve their original goals? I assume this is referring to why they gave up being a non-profit. The answer is that they needed more money.

> The answer is that they needed more money.

isn't it still an odd choice for a nonprofit? it's hard to imagine a world without OpenAI and ChatGPT now, but at some point they decided being the best is most important. and presumably most profitable, since why just need a little more money?

Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]

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Post by fragmede »

exfalso wrote: post #37
_zoltan_ wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worse? There is nothing wrong with wanting 1B. Anybody who said they wouldn't want it is lying.

Nonsense. What the hell would you do with 1B? Give it to charities maybe. Maybe set up an investment where dividends are paid to charity. Running out of ideas

You've run out of ideas already? Try harder! What charities? Why? How much, to which ones? How involved with those charities are you going to be? What dent in history are you going to make with that billion? With or without your name attached. Build housing, cure cancer, feed the hungry, buy this simulator https://www.1940airterminal.org/news/liquidation-of-simulato...

Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]

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Post by jesterson »

exfalso wrote: post #37
_zoltan_ wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worse? There is nothing wrong with wanting 1B. Anybody who said they wouldn't want it is lying.

Nonsense. What the hell would you do with 1B? Give it to charities maybe. Maybe set up an investment where dividends are paid to charity. Running out of ideas

There are a lot of greedy people thinking everyone would die for a bullion. They couldn’t comprehend another way of thinking due to narrow mindset

Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]

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Post by arvid-lind »

secondcoming wrote: post #15
Kinrany wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did the diary end up in the court files in the first place?

legal discovery process?

there's even an episode of The Office where this happens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3GbCByGltU&t=214s

Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]

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Post by gizajob »

arvid-lind wrote: post #41
dave1010uk wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. Solve reinforcement learning. 2. solve unsupervised learning. 3. gradually tackle more complicated things. > what was the "real reason" they couldn't achieve their original goals? I assume this is referring to why they gave up being a non-profit. The answer is that they needed more money.

> The answer is that they needed more money. isn't it still an odd choice for a nonprofit? it's hard to imagine a world without OpenAI and ChatGPT now, but at some point they decided being the best is most important. and presumably most profitable, since why just need a little more money?

Trivial to imagine everyone switching to Anthropic or Google or on-device LLMs.

Re: Greg Brockman interview [video]

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Post by gizajob »

fragmede wrote: post #42
exfalso wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nonsense. What the hell would you do with 1B? Give it to charities maybe. Maybe set up an investment where dividends are paid to charity. Running out of ideas

You've run out of ideas already? Try harder! What charities? Why? How much, to which ones? How involved with those charities are you going to be? What dent in history are you going to make with that billion? With or without your name attached. Build housing, cure cancer, feed the hungry, buy this simulator https://www.1940airterminal.org/news/liquidation-of-simulato...

Didn’t even buy a Yacht or a Warhol yet.
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