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Re:Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI by MattRix on Saturday November 18, 2023 @02:37AM (#38316591)
Perhaps you could argue that he wants to stick with Sam and the others because if they start a company that competes with OpenAI, there’s a real chance they catch up and surpass OpenAI. If you really want to be a voice for safety, it’ll be most effective if you’re on the winning team.
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Re:Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI by Closi on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:09AM (#38316805)
Depends how much research is driven by Ilya…
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Re:Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI by I_am_uncreative on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:14AM (#38316843)
I dunno, the moat Sam tried to build might make it hard to make a competitor.
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Re:Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI by jatins on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:33AM (#38316974)
We are about to find out if the moats are indeed that strong.

xAI recently showed that training a decent-ish model is now a multi-month effort. Granted GPT-4 is still farther along than others but curious how many months/resources does that add up when you have the team that built it in the first place

But also, starting another LLM company might be too obvious a thing to do. Maybe Sam has another trick up his sleeve? Though I suspect he is sticking with AI one way or the other

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Re:Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI by thekoma on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:50AM (#38317084)
One funny detail is that the OpenAI charter states that, if this happens, they will stop their own work and help the organisation that is closest to achieving OpenAI's stated goal.
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Re:Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI by aryamaan on Saturday November 18, 2023 @04:42AM (#38317467)
really?
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Re:Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI by thekoma on Saturday November 18, 2023 @05:36AM (#38317865)
https://openai.com/charter

Second paragraph of the "Long-term safety" section.

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Re:Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI by trallnag on Saturday November 18, 2023 @04:59AM (#38317567)
Maybe Sam wants to build something for profit?
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Re:Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI by cma on Saturday November 18, 2023 @08:26AM (#38319305)
But now it may be the regulations they've gotten in place will make it harder for any new upstarts to approach them.
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Re:Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI by visarga on Saturday November 18, 2023 @05:17AM (#38317710)
> If you really want to be a voice for safety, it’ll be most effective if you’re on the winning team.

If an AI said that, we'd be calling it "capability gain" and think it's a huge risk.

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