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I always tell ChatGPT "thank you" when I end an exchange.
I am actually super abusive to my Google home. Not as mean as I was to my Alexa, but that thing was a dumb as fuck and needed to be told often. Now as soon as it's mobile and is more than a voice controlled kitchen timer I'll be more cautious.
quickwhips
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I've never seen anything like this. Mad props to the openAI team. Sam must be a pretty legit boss.
The board kicked him without telling the CEO of Microsoft their biggest partner who owns over half the company. The Microsoft CEO came out and said they support Sam.
The cofounder of OpenAI immediately resigned after hearing Sam got removed. A few hours later the whole OpenAI company said they were walking and the investors threaten to pull out as well. Company is currently in the middle of a funding round which proves the board didn't think this through or thought no one would care.
Most recent update is Sam is coming back and the board will be replaced. Still no confirmation on this.
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Joe T.
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This OpenAI shakeup smells fishy as hell to me with MS so quickly snapping up Altman, Brockman and probably many more deserters in the days/weeks/months ahead. Isn't it likely Nadella orchestrated this coup?
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OpenAI has received just a fraction of Microsoft’s $10 billion investment | Semafor
The funding and the software giant’s compute resources give it a leg up as it sorts through Sam Altman's firing.
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I guess the immediate concern is how long will ChatGPT continue to run if most of the engineers leave. 
Honestly considering the timeline of AI and how early it is, I think this is a net positive for the industry. OpenAI has turned into something that it was never intended to be and Sam was against open sourcing their development.
Now he and the team can create closed AI with Microsoft who already owned the majority of the company and openAI can go back to its roots. In the long run I hope OpenAI survives but I could see them closing down. Microsoft was already all in on AI as seen from their Ignite conferences.
This shakeup probably removes the 12 month headstart OpenAI had on the industry and will allow other companies to catch up. Hopefully a common foundation of building AI can be agreed upon in the next few months so that industry standards have been set.
Now he and the team can create closed AI with Microsoft who already owned the majority of the company and openAI can go back to its roots. In the long run I hope OpenAI survives but I could see them closing down. Microsoft was already all in on AI as seen from their Ignite conferences.
This shakeup probably removes the 12 month headstart OpenAI had on the industry and will allow other companies to catch up. Hopefully a common foundation of building AI can be agreed upon in the next few months so that industry standards have been set.
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You make it sound like closed AI is good an open source AI is bad. I strongly hope that we see open source AIs soon, so that people can basically do what Facebook announced in their Quest 3-event and let us create our own custom AIs ... except without the censorship that comes with closed AI.
I want to create my own companion AI that's safe and secure enough that I can basically use it as a diary and password tresor. And form it to have a nice, individual personality.
Nah that's not my intentions. Everything is better when it is open source and I wish all tech was built with that ideal in mind.
There are a lot of great open source AIs being built currently and OpenAI was supposed to be the industry leader but nothing they built is open source. OpenAI has shifted drastically in its mission over the years, hence Elon leaving the board and what not. Sam and crew seem like they want to focus on being the next Apple instead of being the AI group that sets the protocols for building AI. To me this is why I think it would be good for OpenAI to go back to its original mission even though its not practical considering their current business model.
Its all quite fascinating... a line in the sand has been drawn and the sides are solidify now. We have the Effective accelerationists(E/Acc) who follow the Techno-Optimist Manifesto and then the doomers who want to slow everything down.
I wouldn't be surprised if these two groups eventually become major political players lobbying for their wants. Shit, I am pretty sure its already happening.
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The problem with trying to hold back AI is: Somewhere in Russia or China, scientists are rigorously working on advanced AI and NOBODY there gives a shit about moral and otherwise implications. And then they'll sicc their AI against the West, telling it to launch their own nukes against them, and it's game over.
AIs are the new nukes and we need advanced ones in the West to protect ourselves from outside AIs.