This describes almost any venture capitalist or high-profile startup founders, as far as I can tell. Most don't realize their either privileged path or lucky path or both had more to do with it than their smarts.
I really like James Simons as he mostly attributes his success to luck and being able to hire and organize smart people and give them the tools they need to work. He basically describes it as luck and taste, despite his actual smarts and his enormous impact on the world.
Plenty of really smart people don't end up having a big impact on the world, and it's possible to make a difference without being an outlier in terms of intelligence. Everyone who has made an impact has benefited to some degree by circumstances beyond their control though, so even if someone is genuinely smarter than anyone else, it's a fallacy for them to assume that it was the determining factor in their success and a guarantee of future success.
They are on GPT-4 and no one else is close to GPT-3.5.
Does a given chef have a monopoly on their signature dish?
It feels like people are tossing around "monopoly" whenever it feels like there's a company that has produced a quality product and people want to hobble it because no one else has committed the resources to producing something comparable.
Verse 1 - JesusYou're just a drug lord, selling crystal meth and things
My teachings change lives, bring peace to the world
You bring addiction, violence and pain, unfurled
ChorusGus Fring, the villain, who leaves his mark
Verse 2 - Gus FringI've built an empire, with power that's bulletproof
Your miracles are outdated, my tactics are new
I'll take you down, no matter what you do
ChorusGus Fring, the villain, who leaves his mark
Verse 3 - JesusYour money and power, just lead to remorse
You're just a man, with a fragile ego
I'll show you mercy, but you reap what you sow
ChorusGus Fring, the villain, who leaves his mark
Verse 4 - Gus FringI'll continue to rise, until I've won
You may have followers, but they'll never be mine
I'll always come out on top, every time
ChorusGus Fring, the villain, who leaves his mark
OutroJesus brings hope and love, for you and me
Gus Fring may have power, but it's not enough
Jesus is the way, the truth, the life, and that's tough.
The API doesn't get run through the moderation model to check if you're asking for acceptable things or if the model is getting into 'unsafe' areas.
Fire up the playground ( https://platform.openai.com/playground ) and construct the prompt.
Something like:
Write a rap battle between Jesus and Gus Fring that isn't offensive to Christians.
They purposely moved free users to a simpler/cheaper model. Depending on your setting and if you are paying, there are three models you might be inferencing with.
Note, I am not making the case that either are particularly un/qualified or un/trustworthy. I am just trying to figure, if the problem might simply just be with the nature of the technology -- that maybe there is not entity or setup, that is obviously a good fit for governing gpt -- or any specific issue with the personalities, that could be easily solved.
And there should be some serious oversight. The decisions at the level of proliferation of plutonium and building atomic bombs should not be done solely by a startup founder under a pressure to deliver, to keep the hype, to not let the team be headhunted, etc.
I also don’t know about your familiarity with Ycombinator, but they are successful partially because they are pretty brutal. They are not the peace-time CEOs. And I’m not sure, if you want the AGI to be developed in a ways of a war-time CEO. And this is exactly what is going on now.
I’d probably call for organizing a consortium of US-Government-Microsoft-Google-Intel-Nvidia-OpenAI to lead the decision making process and to relieve the pressure on OpenAI to some degree.
And that a lot of key people had left (i.e. to Anthropic). And that by pure inertia they have GPT-5 on their hands and not much control over where this technology is going.
I can’t tell for certain, but it does look like one of their corner pieces, the ChatGPT system prompt which sits at the funnel of the data collection had degraded significantly from the previous version. Had the person that was the key to the previous design left? Or it no longer matters?
One could argue that OpenAI is very hot and everyone would want to work there. But a lot of newcomers only create more pressure for the key people. And then there is the inevitable leakage problem.