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Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by orionsbelt on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @04:01PM (#41651267)
Maybe she thinks the _world_ is a few short years away from building world-changing AGI, not just limited to OpenAI, and she wants to compete and do her own thing (and easily raise $1B like Ilya).
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by xur17 on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @04:12PM (#41651367)
Which is arguably a good thing (having AGI spread amongst multiple entities rather than one leader).
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by tomrod on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @04:23PM (#41651452)
The show Person of Interest comes to mind.
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by tempodox on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @04:47PM (#41651701)
Samaritan will take us by the hand and lead us safely through this brave new world.
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by HeatrayEnjoyer on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @05:37PM (#41652137)
How is that good? An arms race increases the pressure to go fast and disregard alignment safety, non proliferation is essential.
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by actionfromafar on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @06:18PM (#41652468)
I think that train left some time ago.
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by ssnistfajen on Thursday September 26, 2024 @02:00AM (#41654999)
Probably off-topic for this thread but my own rather fatalist view is alignment/safety is a waste of effort if AGI will happen. True AGI will be able to self-modify at a pace beyond human comprehension, and won't be obligated to comply with whatever values we've set for it. If it can be reined in with human-set rules like a magical spell, then it is not AGI. If humans have free will, then AGI will have it too. Humans frequently go rogue and reject value systems that took decades to be baked into them. There is no reason to believe AGI won't do the same.
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by PhilipRoman on Thursday September 26, 2024 @03:37PM (#41662333)
Feels like the pope trying to ban crossbows tbh.
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by zooq_ai on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @05:08PM (#41651893)
I can't imagine investor pouring money on her. She has zero credibility both hardcore STEM like Ilya or a visionary like Jobs/Musk
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by phatfish on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @06:39PM (#41652624)
"Credibility" has nothing to do with how much money rich people are willing to give you.
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by KoftaBob on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @06:40PM (#41652628)
She was the CTO, how does she not have STEM credibility?
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by peanuty1 on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @07:17PM (#41652876)
Has she published a single AI research paper?
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by zooq_ai on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @09:54PM (#41653733)
Sometimes with good looks and charm, you can fall up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Murati

Point me to a single credential where you feel confident of putting your money on her?

Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by csomar on Thursday September 26, 2024 @01:54AM (#41654957)
She studied math early on, so she's definitively technical. She is the CTO, so she kinda needs to balance the managerial while having enough understanding of the underlying technical.
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI by zooq_ai on Thursday September 26, 2024 @10:33AM (#41658869)
Again, it's easy to be a CTO for a startup. You just have to be at the right time. Your role is literally is, do all the stuff Researchers/Engineers have to deal with. Do you really think Mira set the technical agenda, architecture for OpenAI?

It's a pity that HN crowd doesn't go one-level deep and truly understand on first principles