Comment by sherburt3
9 hours ago
What a great metaphor for AI. Taking an event that is a celebration of high school kids' knowledge and abilities and turning it into a marketing stunt for their frankenstein monster that they are building to make all the kids' hard work worth nothing.
Not only, by not officially entering they had no obligation to announce their result so if they didn't achieve a gold medal score they presumably wouldn't have made any announcement and no-one would have been the wiser.
This cowardly bullshit followed by the grandstanding on Twitter is high-school bully behaviour.
also did they self-rate themselves?
If they failed and remained quiet, then everyone would know that the other companies performed well and they didn't even qualify.
If they failed while not participating officially, they would have never competed at the eyes public if they didnt disclose it (doubtful, given prior decisions to prioritise hype vs transparency)
Google did the correct and respectful thing.
It appears that OpenAI didn't officially enter (whereas Google did), that they knew Google was going to gold medal, and that they released their news ahead of time (disrespecting the kids and organizers) so they could scoop Google.
Really scummy on OpenAI's part.
The IMO closing ceremony was July 19. OpenAI announced on the same day.
IMO requested the tech companies to wait until the following week.