Follow up to https://awful.systems/post/1109610 (which I need to go read now because I completely overlooked this)
Now OpenAI has responded to Elon Musk’s lawsuit with an email dump containing a bunch of weird nerd startup funding drama: https://openai.com/blog/openai-elon-musk
Choice quote from OpenAI:
As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it’s totally OK to not share the science (even though sharing everything is definitely the right strategy in the short and possibly medium term for recruitment purposes).
OpenAI have learned how to redact text properly now though, a pity really.
it’s very funny that OpenAI’s being so public with this, cause there’s a bunch of embarrassing shit in there:
- several admissions that OpenAI only ever used the veneer of being an open source non-profit as a recruitment, fundraising, and marketing tool — there was never a plan to function as a non-profit once they’d attracted attention
- “The core algorithms we use today have remained largely unchanged from the ~90s. Not only that, but any algorithmic advances published in a paper somewhere can be almost immediately re-implemented and incorporated. Conversely, algorithmic advances alone are inert without the scale to also make them scary.” aka, there’s no real breakthrough here, the fancy markov chain just looks scarier after you feed it the world’s data
- musk’s apparent plan was for OpenAI to implement Tesla’s self-driving tech. when they said no he threw a tantrum and decided Tesla could do this AGI thing itself. this one isn’t surprising at all but it’s very funny that musk assumed GPT was the key to making his self-driving shit work
- the general amount of cult jargon combined with clueless MBA chatter
- fucking slatestarcodex posts steering top-level decisions at OpenAI
