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So the issue is that nothing is going to come out of this.
Microsoft is essentially absorbing the impact.
OpenAI 100% still has the stage here.
Nobody's gonna stop using ChatGPT
Especially if Altman, with literally zero dev experience, manages to somehow replicate half of GPT's algorithms somehow, with his... what... 3 devs now?
Who the hell is going to go "Yay, now let's use this FOR PROFIT ALL YOUR BASE BELONG TO US KNOCKOFF SOFTWARE BING BONG"
Brockman has real dev (not research) experience and has a lot of street cred in that direction. Don't forget that ChatGPT is as much an app as it is a LLM.
much of AI research is back-of-a-napkin ideas tested on room-sized computers. I wouldn't discount those few engineers joining MSFT: they'll have at least a general knowledge of the best techniques, and now even more even more compute to test them on. Also, Sama is a talent magnet and I have no doubts they'll build a team on par with OpenAIs.
The model is already done. The challenge right now is to scale up operations and make it viable/profitable. ML engineers can't do that (their job is to build models not build infrastructure)
You mean to say ML scientists cannot do that?
Lol, yes, thank you. Corrected
Maybe he gets 3 people, maybe half the company. But one thing is sure - a lot of people will leave OpenAI taking their OpenAI experience to other places. That will be good in the long term, less concentration of power.
Lol I always wanted to join OpenAI to work under Sutskevar. When Altman joined in 2019, my first thought was why is the YC guy running arguably the most important AI lab in the world.
He's probably a talent magnet, but he's not a talent magnet for ML researchers. Probably for tech people yes but more of the startup engineer types who are proud of not going to school. Not the academic researcher types who spent 10 years at university doing PhDs and PostDocs in ML.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/?utm_medium=social&mbid=social_twitter&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter&utm_brand=wired
Let's not forget that Altman was reddit's CEO for 8 days....
That gives him perpetual license to train AI models on the reddit corpus.
This is a lie. He has been coding since he was a kid. Went to Stanford for computer science. Now if you said.. "He isn't the driving dev force behind chatgpt" sure, but you said "literally zero dev experience,"
he has zero dev experience
you can see that from his resume
here, hold this balloon
500+/700 OpenAI employees have signed a letter to threatening to resign and join Microsoft. That’s pretty much the whole company https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-altman/
I'd say to them: Good luck.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs