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Re:Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy by unityByFreedom on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @09:51PM (#14600052)
Open AI was always a pipeline for Musk. Use other people's donations to attract and identify the talent, then move them under his payroll.

I guess that's a win win for the employees and for Musk. Not sure how many other supporters Open AI has, though I doubt that's what they had in mind when they donated to support that effort.

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Re:Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy by nsturis on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @05:51AM (#14602371)
It's not like Musk doesn't donate to OpenAI himself..
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Re:Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy by unityByFreedom on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:35AM (#14604673)
That he spends money to find talent for his own company isn't so surprising. He's just done it in a new, slightly abstract way
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Re:Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy by jfoster on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @10:11PM (#14600144)
Worth noting that OpenAI may not otherwise exist. It mightn't be precisely ideal, but I think it's broadly a 3-way win.
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Re:Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy by unityByFreedom on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:38AM (#14604705)
Their mission, to add more open source tools to the ai space, is already being accomplished by for-profit companies like Google and Facebook.

If it weren't attached to Musk, and if Tesla never hired from them, I'd agree it's good to have a non-profit in the mix. As it is, if it looks and acts like a pipeline for talent, it's a pipeline for talent.

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