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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by jplusequalt on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:49AM (#45732887)
A sufficiently large profit margin is what constitutes AGI? What a fucking joke.
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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by joomla199 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @10:53AM (#45733654)
The real AGI was the money we siphoned along the way.
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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by latentsea on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @07:47PM (#45740843)
Absolute Grift Industry
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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by a_victorp on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @07:50PM (#45740864)
This is pretty good!
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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by layer8 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @11:48AM (#45734417)
“Only” means that it is a necessary condition, not a sufficient one.
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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by nerevarthelame on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @02:19PM (#45736691)
That's true, but the $100 billion requirement is the only hard qualification defined in earlier agreements. The rest of the condition was left to the "reasonable discretion" of the board of OpenAI. (https://archive.is/tMJoG)
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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by layer8 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @02:26PM (#45736792)
The “reasonableness” is something they could go to court over if necessary, whereas the $100 billion is a hard requirement.
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Re:The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership by josho on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:12PM (#45741039)
They didn't have a better definition of AGI to draw from. The old Turing test proved to not be a particularily good test. So lacking a definition money was used as a proxy. Which to me seems fair. Unless you've got a better definition of AGI that is solid enough to put in a high dollar value contract?
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