Excellent point. This is what I find so aggravating about the board's decision. Even if you buy everything that has been reported/speculated, that they were concerned about OpenAI being "too commercial" and Altman leading this commercial charge and being duplicitous in the process, all they've done is completely obliterated whatever part of the nonprofit's charter that still had influence.
"AGI for the benefit of all humanity" will become yet another SV "how do we make the most money" ploy.
I don't see how the board did that. It would just be the employees leaving because they want more monetization and thence pay that spells doom for non-profit AI development.
My read was that they weren't worried about it being too commercial necessarily, but that it would be closely held with only governments and huge companies getting access.
It was created as a response to Google having exclusive access to the best models. If Microsoft lets anyone with an Azure account pay by the query to SOTA models then that would at least be an improvement
Excellent point. This is what I find so aggravating about the board's decision. Even if you buy everything that has been reported/speculated, that they were concerned about OpenAI being "too commercial" and Altman leading this commercial charge and being duplicitous in the process, all they've done is completely obliterated whatever part of the nonprofit's charter that still had influence.
"AGI for the benefit of all humanity" will become yet another SV "how do we make the most money" ploy.
I don't see how the board did that. It would just be the employees leaving because they want more monetization and thence pay that spells doom for non-profit AI development.
My read was that they weren't worried about it being too commercial necessarily, but that it would be closely held with only governments and huge companies getting access.
Maybe the learning from this episode is that the limited liability for-profit company is the worst form of coordination except for all the others?
It was created as a response to Google having exclusive access to the best models. If Microsoft lets anyone with an Azure account pay by the query to SOTA models then that would at least be an improvement
ironically, that's the mission of pre-Sam era.