It seems like Sam Altman and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft will have won completely. Sam and Microsoft will do whatever they want for almost the entire OpenAI team. It could be with the old OpenAI or in the new Microsoft entity. Microsoft will fund the Sam AI team with all the resources needed.
They will have all the team, data and code.
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It’s probably the AI’s that instigated all of this.
The fear of AI is a reflection of our own hubris. We are the result of billions of years of evolution, dog eat dog competition has moulded us and formed our needs and drives. What we see as self awareness is a function of all our many facets of survival. Love and reproduction, competition for resource and status, social and governmental constructs all are driven by our basic needs.
None of this is true for AI! Will it even be conscious in our sense of the word? And if it is, where are its areas of competition with us? We have to stop looking at it through out own lens, we are quite literally producing an “alien” construct.
The challenges come from what you use AI for! A big machine to research and understand the whole of biology and cure everything great. But AI will be used for warfare and perhaps to influence public perception… It is being use now in its simplest forms already.
I do not think AI is the problem it is us and our nature!
It’s such a win for Nadella and Altman, that I start to wonder if they didn’t entice poor Ilya Sutskever (or convinced him? but I doubt it, given the amount of hate he’s receiving) into complying with the decels of the board to precipitate this.
They knew Altman would get kicked out, Brockman then follows and the workers would rebel due to anger of losing any company equity or hope of it, and then a new completely for profit entity is created, under the reigns of Nadella and Altman and free from the decel deadweight.
A very risky move. But they surely knew that the board was a bunch of EA safetyist about to put the brakes on any “dangerous” research they were up to, and even the charter of OpenAI forbade them to continue forward in partnership with Microsoft or anyone, had any proof of actual AGI emerged.
OpenAI could have been dynamited since the beginning and triggered by its own success, and they just pushed it over the edge.
That kind of tech needs to be supervised by smart and moral people. The power hungry psychopaths needs to be kept in check, otherwise things could go rogue. I think it is clear in that story, who is on the side of less careful and less moral progression with AI and who wants to take things more carefully. My guess is that he is and was in league with Microsoft and they are in favor in less careful and more exploitative approach to AI. Board rebelled and as last resort they fired him.
Things in the labs are probably much more advanced as we know it.