If you want to understand the whole OpenAI thing, this article is super helpful because it explains that OpenAI is not a real research organization or tech company like the ones we know: It's a cult. It's basically Scientology 2.0.

Quote:
"The consequences are what you might expect when a crowd of bright but rather naive (and occasionally creepy) computer science and adjacent people try to re-invent theology from first principles, to model what human-created gods might do, and how they ought be constrained. They include the following, non-comprehensive list: all sorts of strange mental exercises, postulated superhuman entities benign and malign and how to think about them; the jumbling of parts from fan-fiction, computer science, home-brewed philosophy and ARGs to create grotesque and interesting intellectual chimeras; Nick Bostrom, and a crew of very well funded philosophers; Effective Altruism, whose fancier adherents often prefer not to acknowledge the approach’s somewhat disreputable origins."

https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/look-at-scientology-to-understand

What OpenAI shares with Scientology

Strange beliefs, fights over money and bad science fiction

Programmable Mutter

@tante what is the argument here?

The alternative version of OpenAI is an for-profit entity that makes the most powerful AI in the world without any limits.

Not saying the article is correct or incorrect, but we do live in a world where no other entity is within a year of OpenAI when it comes to technology.

I for one hope they do think a little about safety, and keep the greedy executives at Microsoft at an arms length.

Though it is a good point, I just don't like the alternative.