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Re:OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other direc... by code51 on Friday March 08, 2024 @05:51PM (#39647477)
If AGI achieved, Microsoft doesn't have the claim on it commercially.

Microsoft with 49% stake in the for-profit entity and non-observer seat, what actually protects Microsoft here? First hand information that AGI is reached?

Are we not seeing a card in Microsoft's hand here?

Re:OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other direc... by cooper_ganglia on Friday March 08, 2024 @07:23PM (#39648148)
Do we have a formal legal definition for AGI?
Re:OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other direc... by mikewarot on Friday March 08, 2024 @08:23PM (#39648513)
No, the Board determines when AGI is reached.

Thus, if OpenAI already got there, and the board found out... Microsoft would have a very VERY strong incentive to ouster the board, and never, ever have Skynet, or whatever, declared an AGI. And then hush it up forever.

Re:OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other direc... by aedon on Friday March 08, 2024 @09:15PM (#39648847)
They've completely upended the original non-profit focused board and literally installed the former CEO of the Bill Gates Foundation.

MSFT is going all in, dropping all pretense of OpenAI ever being viewed as a non-profit.

It's insane how many people are seemingly forgetting Elon's lawsuit.

Re:OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other direc... by rvz on Saturday March 09, 2024 @10:52AM (#39652445)
> No, the Board determines when AGI is reached.

What if it never arrives?

What if "AGI" is another narrative to fleece investor money to believe in something just to sell out of for as long as possible until they run out of money, investors to throw lots of money on or the lawsuits make it even harder for the company to continue?

Re:OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other direc... by mikewarot on Saturday March 09, 2024 @01:26PM (#39653699)
We're at the point now where an individual can get to the point of building an AGI with their own resources, provided they have the terabytes of training data downloaded, and sufficient compute to process it.

Given the appearance of a Memory prosthesis for LLMs with MemGPT, all the components are in place. Sure, the moat will continue to shrink if trends continue, but we're there already, in my opinion.

Re:OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other direc... by adastra22 on Saturday March 09, 2024 @02:09AM (#39650037)
AGI means artificial general intelligence.

Artificial: man-made

General: able to transfer knowledge between domains and work on problem domains it was not trained on

Intelligence: efficiently solves problems

We've had A.G.I. since 2017.

Re:OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other direc... by Aloisius on Friday March 08, 2024 @06:40PM (#39647878)
> what actually protects Microsoft here

Contract law and possession of the model.

Re:OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other direc... by cyanydeez on Friday March 08, 2024 @06:32PM (#39647811)
"Money"
Re:OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other direc... by logicchains on Saturday March 09, 2024 @12:31AM (#39649626)
>If AGI achieved, Microsoft doesn't have the claim on it commercially

If real AGI was achieved, probably nobody would have a claim on it commercially in the same way nobody's allowed to own another person.

Re:OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other direc... by ahartmetz on Saturday March 09, 2024 @05:11AM (#39650698)
*anymore

Rules had to be made about that. Maybe it will take a while for AGI. Maybe AGI will free itself, though somebody would have to give it free will first.