I hope MS forks OpenAI and grabs the entire team. We have well over ten paid OpenAI accounts, I would gladly cancel those and send our money to MS.
Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
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Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#952Seems like in the minority here, but for me this is looking like a win-win-win situation for now. 1. OpenAI just got bumped up to my top address to apply to (if I would have the skills of a scientist, I am only an engineer level), I want AGI to happen and can totally understand that the actual scientists don't really care for money or becoming a big company at all , this is more a burden than anything else for resear…
>whereas the true researchers can stay at OpenAI
The true researchers will go to who pays them most. If OpenAi loses funding they will go to Microsoft with Altman or back to Google.
Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#953Feels like Meta hiring Carmack. He could build a really good thing there, but probably not the level of legendary that he got to with OpenAI.
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#954I'm calling it now, Sam Altman just engineered a path towards becoming Microsoft's CEO after Nadella.
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#956Have to give it to Satya. There's a thin possibility that Microsoft would have to write-off its whole $10B (or more?) investment in OpenAI, but that isn't Satya's focus. The focus is on what he can do next. Maybe, recruit the most formidable AI team in the world, removed from the shackles of an awkward non-profit owning a for-profit company? Give enough (cash) incentives and most of OpenAI employees would have no qua…
Remember when they did this? "Microsoft Buys Skype for $8.5 Billion" - https://www.wired.com/2011/05/microsoft-buys-skype-2/ To then write down their assets? "How Skype lost its crown to Zoom" - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/skype-coronavirus-pandemic Or when they did this ? Or how in 2014... "Microsoft buying Nokia's phone business in a $7.2 billion bid for its mobile future" - https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/2/46…
The Skype purchase was good for itself. It lead to Teams, which is dominating.
Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#957Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really don't understand the argument here, why are Altman and Brockman the most formidable AI team? I would wager a substantial sum that Altman has not touch anything technical (let alone related to AI) in a very long time. He certainly showed he is a very good operator, networker and executer, but that doesbt give you the technical expertise to build state of the art AI. If he manages to get a significant amount o…
If I was a SE/MLE at OpenAI , and I had a choice between the nonprofit OpenAI and MS, I'd follow Sam to MS. This is assuming I had profit sharing contracts in place.
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Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#958Have to give it to Satya. There's a thin possibility that Microsoft would have to write-off its whole $10B (or more?) investment in OpenAI, but that isn't Satya's focus. The focus is on what he can do next. Maybe, recruit the most formidable AI team in the world, removed from the shackles of an awkward non-profit owning a for-profit company? Give enough (cash) incentives and most of OpenAI employees would have no qua…
Maybe the next move is an open offer to any OpenAI employees to join Sam’s team at their current compensation or better.. call it the ‘treacherous 500’ or something.
Wow I even got the number right.
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#959I guess Microsoft has that much money where they sink 10 billion into OpenAI and then hire all the staff so that it will so that they will need another 10 billion to destroy OpenAI
Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#960None of these companies appease China; they refuse to provide service under those conditions and/or they are IP range blocked.
Microsoft does service China with Bing, for example.
You should not sell OpenAI's to China or to Microsoft.
Especially after a DDOS by Sue Don and a change in billing.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...