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Re: OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger

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The OpenAI board seems to have fatally miscalculated the loyalty to Sam A. And in realizing their error is scrambling to undo their miscalculation. The sad thing is probably was for the right reasons (AI safety over profits), and will result in the precise opposite (unbridled capitalism in AI).

Re: OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger

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post #4

The OpenAI board seems to have fatally miscalculated the loyalty to Sam A. And in realizing their error is scrambling to undo their miscalculation. The sad thing is probably was for the right reasons (AI safety over profits), and will result in the precise opposite (unbridled capitalism in AI).

Since the board hasn’t given any remotely convincing explanation for the firing [0], their miscalculation seems to have rather been that nobody would be asking any questions. Which is really bewildering.

[0] see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38356534

Re: OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger

#9
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 the first place.

[0] https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboar...

Re: OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger

#10
Google and Amazon are major Anthropic investors. Amazon is even going to use Claude in the next few months on Alexa.

Someone can please explain how realistic is to think that Google, Amazon and Microsoft will fund/partner the same future company?

Is the board that crazy for control?

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