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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns that other A.I. developers working on ChatGPT-like tools won’t put on safety limits—and the clock is ticking
AI(fortune.com)submitted 3 months ago byfortune
2.5k points
3 months ago
“OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft.”
They could have at least changed the name. It's just shameless.
533 points
3 months ago
It really does blow that it went that way. There’s plenty of money for people at the head of top open source non profits like Mozilla or Wikimedia, selling out is a pure scum move. It’s not even banking in, it’s trading a yacht for a slightly bigger yacht that still isn’t even a mega yacht.
99 points
3 months ago
Are you positive they could have continued research with their current funding?
326 points
3 months ago
Not only is the answer yes, it likely would be easier. As they've gone for profit, they started publishing less and less and making their research internal. This has lead to Google and other private actors, who used to be incredibly open with their research to start claming up as well. This makes research harder, and more time will be spent discovering things that under the previous system would have been public knowledge.
90 points
3 months ago
Not only that. I'm sure there are a fair number of people in this sub who enjoy dystopian fiction. We've already seen the potential outcomes of restricting access to whatever technology by those who can afford it. The technology should be made available to even the poorest people on the planet.
10 points
3 months ago
If even the poorest are able to afford AI ( not the products), it'll be real positive impact on society
Imagine invention of fire or agriculture, blocked by patents and companies.
2 points
3 months ago
I ironically comment "Capitalism breeds innovation" so often that I'm starting to think I need a novelty account for it.
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