Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft

Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by nextlevelwizard on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:14AM (#38344467)

And if governments squeeze on AI your start up is worth pennies over night. Earning 100 MILLION per year already removes any possible financial restrictions you had. Why do you need to have 10x that? Heck even earning "just" 10 millions per year will make all of your financial concerns go away.

Greed is hell of a thing

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by MikeTheRocker on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:45AM (#38344905)

I suspect for people like Sam who are compulsively ambitious and competitive, it's not about the dollars. It's about winning.

Further, based on anecdotes from friends and Twitter who know Sam personally, I'm inclined to believe he's genuinely motivated by building something that "alters the timeline", so to speak.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by ah765 on Monday November 20, 2023 @03:54AM (#38345028)

Being the guy who built AGI will alter the timeline the most, so I think he'll be much more interested in that than being CEO of Microsoft.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by chx on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:14AM (#38345221)

AGI is decades if not centuries away. Cranking a plausible sentence generator to be even more plausible will not get there. I do not understand how people suddenly completely lost their minds.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by sensanaty on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:22AM (#38345315)

The hype wave really is something else, eh? People are suddenly talking as if these advanced chatbots are on the precipice of genuine AGI that can run any system you throw at it, it's absolute lunacy

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by chx on Monday November 20, 2023 @04:27AM (#38345360)

> The hype wave really is something else, eh?

I am old enough to remember the "How Blockchain Is Solving the World Hunger Crisis" articles but this new wave is even crazier.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by nextlevelwizard on Monday November 20, 2023 @05:07AM (#38345778)

>I am old enough to remember

So, like 15 year old?

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by eddtries on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:19AM (#38347541)

If he was, he signed up to HN at 2!

I do think it's funny how the Blockchain Consultants have become AI Consultants though.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by chx on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:27AM (#38347666)

Here's one from 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/12/26/ho...

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