It's really maddening just how right the board was.
Readit Newsdontupvoteme commented on The OpenAI board was right garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
good question! I don't really know, but you can tell it isn't money; he admitted that himself anyway and reportedly he has no equity in openai[0].
my optimistic hypothesis is he really wants to control AGI because he believes he can make a more efficient use of it than other people. he might even be right and that's what scares me, because I don't trust his measures of efficiency.
I'd rather not let my pessimistic fantasies run wild here.
[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/openai-ceo-sam-altman-didnt-...
it's called "power" and money is merely a proxy of it.
we talk dollars all day long but we haven't quantified power nearly as well
dontupvoteme commented on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/st... · Posted by u/mjcl
He rubs elbows with very powerful people including CEOs, heads of state and sheiks. They probably want 'one of them' in charge of the company that has the best chances of getting close to AGI. So it's not his technical chops and not even 'vision' in the Jobs sense that keeps him there.
Are they really the ones with the best chance now though?
They're basically owned by Microsoft, they're bleeding tech/ethnical talent and credibility, and most importantly Microsoft Research itself is no slouch (especially post-Deepmind poaching) - things like Phi are breaking ground on planets that openai hasn't even touched.
At this point I'm thinking they're destined to become nothing but a premium marketing brand for Microsoft's technology.
dontupvoteme commented on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice twitter.com/BobbyAllyn/st... · Posted by u/mjcl
Well, that statement lays out a damning timeline:
- OpenAI approached Scarlett last fall, and she refused.
- Two days before the GPT-4o launch, they contacted her agent and asked that she reconsider. (Two days! This means they already had everything they needed to ship the product with Scarlett’s cloned voice.)
- Not receiving a response, OpenAI demos the product anyway, with Sam tweeting “her” in reference to Scarlett’s film.
- When Scarlett’s counsel asked for an explanation of how the “Sky” voice was created, OpenAI yanked the voice from their product line.
Perhaps Sam’s next tweet should read “red-handed”.
Could they have made it look less like Midler vs Ford?
"Midler was asked to sing a famous song of hers for the commercial and refused. Subsequently, the company hired a voice-impersonator of Midler and carried on with using the song for the commercial, since it had been approved by the copyright-holder. Midler's image and likeness were not used in the commercial but many claimed the voice used sounded impeccably like Midler's."
As a casual mostly observer of AI, even I was aware of this precedent
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This person is famous?
sounds like he's mad about being sloppy seconds `:)`
dontupvoteme commented on Students invent quieter leaf blower hub.jhu.edu/2024/05/14/qu... · Posted by u/namanyayg
The innovative power of the hangover
dontupvoteme commented on Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI twitter.com/janleike/stat... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
I was able to download a copy of that before they took it down. Silly.
Yeah it was already mirrored pretty quickly. I expect enough people are now running cronjobs to archive whitelists of HF pages and auto-cloning anything that gets pushed out.
dontupvoteme commented on Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI twitter.com/janleike/stat... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
Makes me wonder if that 20% compute commitment to superalignment research was walked back (or redesigned so as to be distant from the original mission). Or, perhaps the two deemed that even more commitment was necessary, and were dissatisfied with Altman's response.
Either way, if it's enough to cause them both to think it's better to research outside of the opportunities and access to data that OpenAI provides, I don't see a scenario where this doesn't indicate a significant shift in OpenAI's commitment to superalignment research and safety. One hopes that, at the very least, Microsoft's interests in brand integrity incentivize at least some modicum of continued commitment to safety research.
Ironically Microsoft is the one that's notoriously terrible at checking their "AI" products before releasing them.
Besides the infamous Tay there was that apparently un-aligned Wizard-2[or something like that] model from them which got released by mistake for about 12 hours
I recently received an job recruitment email for an AI role in all-lowercase and I was baffled how to interpret it.
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