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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by jltsiren on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:32PM (#38372797)
I think the real issue is that OpenAI was doomed to fail from the beginning. AI is commercially too valuable to be developed by an organization with a mission like them. Eventually they had to make a choice: either become a for-profit without any pretensions about the good of humanity, or stay true to the mission and abandon ambitions of being at the cutting edge of AI development.

A non-profit could not have beaten the superpowers in developing the atomic bomb, and a non-profit cannot beat commercial interests in developing AI.

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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by Davidzheng on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:08PM (#38373210)
I think it's different bc atomic bomb is pure cost and AI can have returns from products. But your overall point may stand
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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by dboreham on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:46PM (#38373539)
There's definitely (very large) returns from having atomic weapons.
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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by lazide on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @11:10PM (#38374651)
Having the bomb first has infinite ROI.
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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by adolph on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:47PM (#38373546)
> either become a for-profit without any pretensions about the good of humanity

Not a day passes that I don't hear from some company that has pretensions about the good of humanity and how they are leading the way to it. Plenty of non-profits and government orgs have the same pretensions.

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Re:Before Altman’s ouster, OpenAI’s board was divided and fe... by jart on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:56PM (#38373633)
I always thought the structure was there to pull the wool over the eyes of the world's smartest researchers, to get them to agree to help them build a doomsday sort of technology. I never expected the board would be drinking their own kool aid.
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