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Re: Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma

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Post by joaogui1 » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 6:49 PM UTC

Alupis wrote: post #3

> Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, was once the VP of research at OpenAI, and reportedly split with the firm after a disagreement over OpenAI’s roadmap — namely its growing commercial focus. So he's now the CEO of Anthropic, a company selling AI services? Claude is amazing, and we use it's Teams plan here at the office extensively (having switched from ChatGPT since Claude is vastly better at technical material and adc…

I think the whole situation where they got some serious investment from SBF and then he got indicted pushed them into commercialising their tech so they could have more standard sources of funding

Re: Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma

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Post by nurettin » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 8:32 PM UTC

llamaimperative wrote: post #46

nurettin wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Pivoting from "for all mankind" to "all for myself" Isn't the former already a red flag?

No it’s good to try to build tech that helps people. Doesn’t mean such declarations need to be taken at face value, but being baseline-cynical is generally unwarranted, undesirable, and uninteresting.

I know a certain Nigerian prince who would wholeheartedly agree with such broadly encompassing statements.

Re: Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma

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Post by llamaimperative » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 8:53 PM UTC

nurettin wrote: post #82

llamaimperative wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No it’s good to try to build tech that helps people. Doesn’t mean such declarations need to be taken at face value, but being baseline-cynical is generally unwarranted, undesirable, and uninteresting.

I know a certain Nigerian prince who would wholeheartedly agree with such broadly encompassing statements.

Cynicism doesn't necessarily protect you from getting scammed, but it does absolutely prevent you from accessing any upside there is to be had in the world :)

Re: Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma

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Post by nurettin » Thu, Oct 03, 2024, 4:59 AM UTC

llamaimperative wrote: post #83

nurettin wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know a certain Nigerian prince who would wholeheartedly agree with such broadly encompassing statements.

Cynicism doesn't necessarily protect you from getting scammed, but it does absolutely prevent you from accessing any upside there is to be had in the world :)

The upside being people flocking from MLM to DeFi to LLMs like headless chickens while I watch in amusement?

The only downside for me is having been involved in all these projects and knowing enough to innovate. At least I do try to warn people before we proceed.