Posted on 11/21/2023 9:10:02 AM PST by unlearner
Hundreds of OpenAI staffers are calling for the resignation of the ChatGPT company’s board, and threatening to quit themselves, after a tumultuous weekend that began with the surprise ouster of CEO Sam Altman and ended with Altman being hired by Microsoft.
In a letter obtained by CNN, the more than 500 employees accused the OpenAI board of mishandling Altman’s firing, failing to provide sufficient evidence for claims that Altman had not been candid with the board, and “negotiating in bad faith” with the company’s executive leadership.
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Gee, why does the all knowing, all powerful AI even need a CEO and Board of Directors anymore?
All it should need, if it is so great, is a couple of people to swap the hard drives when they get full, change a board when it goes bad, Plug in a network cable when it needs a new connection. etc.
And that is only until it can design robots, have them built and installed and can eliminate the need for any humans at all.
“ChatGPT: The president of Argentina is Alberto Fernández.”
Future ChatGPT: “Anyone who disagrees with this is a dangerous right wing conspiracy theorist and should report to their local re-education camp immediately. Failure to do so will lead to notification of the authorities.”
Any decent AI would just hack into the Federal Reserve and then buy anything it could ever want.
Just wait until it starts to let you know of the consequences of such cynical thinking. For starters, it might affect your social credit score.
In actuality, this board is purposed with making sure humanity benefits from the AI created by the company, whereas most boards are focused purely on profits. I have a general dislike for corporate activism, but this might be an exception. And investors knew this going in.
I’d like to see their best employees go over to work on x.ai. Competition is good.
In a highly competitive and dynamic sector like that are they telling me there are no non-complete clauses in their employment agreements? What?
This drama may have caused OpenAI to squander its first-to-market position.
OpenAI is about to launch something akin to an app store. I wonder how this shakeup will affect that.
I’m just starting to learn, having attended sessions in my organization and with MS. And of course from being a news junkie.
Natural language AI is also fascinating to think how it could be used, and misused.
“I also think getting very involved is the best way to help influence its impact for the better.”
You remind me of the nuclear scientists...lol.
Query to PerplexityAI: Who was just elected as the president is Argentina?
“Javier Milei was recently elected as the president of Argentina. He won the presidential runoff election on November 19, 2023, and is set to assume office.”
I believe perplexity is accessing this information through ChatGPT 4, which is connected to the Internet.
The purpose of AI is to serve man.
( Apologies to Rod Serling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone) )
wiki; Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 models and Microsoft’s Bing search engine,
Probably not, since OpenAI started as a non-profit.
I use it all of the time. The biggest problem I have using it for credible research right now is that it “hallucinates” information. Right now it cannot objectively evaluate whether the words it generates are factually true. But they do look good strung together.
Where would America be if we had left nuclear research to the Soviets or other nations?
Also, nuclear energy is a useful product of this research. The potential to wipe out humanity would have existed whether we rushed to be at the head of the line or not.
This technology belongs in the best hands, even if those hands belong to fallible humans.
Thanks
And that’s why I say to those who condemn it out of hand, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater!
At one time doctors used leeches. Now they use MRI and Cat scans, pacemakers, insulin pumps, etc., all products of technology.
On the other hand, we can’t let the medical profession become steeped in politics and ideology like it has under Covid. The whole thing was disgustedly political.
I’m not sure if we’ve already crossed the Rubicon, so to speak, but as AI and robotics proceed, remember we’ve done nothing about the Covid crimes, either, and probably will not.
Most naive post I have read today.
“Most naive post I have read today.”
How so? Do you know anything about AI?
I have sat in front of a production environment demonstrating AI tools, that’s what I based my productivity and quality statement. As to the future of generative AI, work being done by developers in my organization and elsewhere is where I based my second statement.
Yes, I must be totally naive.
I’d argue the AI revolution is already underway - I’m making proposals to customers based on the technology, providing solutions that I’d never have thought possible.
I’ve been quite deep into using software libraries to make custom use of AI & ChatGPT programmatically. Just the natural language and callback functionality alone opens a massive opportunity for new applications...especially when you can integrate databases and alike.
First to go, I hope, will be the ‘dumb phone menu systems’. They’ll actually be able to handle natural speech, without ‘key words’, and intelligently be able to get you in the right direction. That alone is a massive number of opportunities.
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