I can't help but wonder if things would be different if Sam Altman wasn't allowed to come back to OpenAI. Instead, the safeguards are gone, challengers have left the company, and the bottom line is now the new priority. All in opposition to ushering in AI advancement with the caution and respect it deserves.
Similar example can be seen with the demise of Twitter under the new owner, which has no safeguards or guardrails - anyone who opposed him is gone and we can see in what state it is now.
Maybe my expectations were too high but they seem to have run out of juice. Every major announcement since the original ChatGPT release has been kind of a dud - I know there have been improvements, but it's mostly the same hallucinatory experience as it was on release day. A lot of the interesting work is now happening elsewhere. It seems like for a lot of products, the LLM part is just an API layer you can swap out if you think e.g Claude does a better job.
It was always a bit too optimistic to think we will be cautiously developing AGI, in a way it's not so bad that this happened so soon rather than later after it progressed much further. (I mean in theory we could understand to do something about it now.)
Although I guess it doesn't really matter. What if we all understood climate change earlier? wouldn't really have made a difference anyway
What else would you expect from a skeevy backstabber who got kicked out of Kenya for refusing to stop scanning people's eyes in exchange for shitcoin crypto? He was building a global surveillance database with Worldcoin.
Altman was fucking with OpenAI for long before the board left in protest, since about the time Elon Musk had to leave due to Tesla's AI posing a conflict of interest. He got more and more brazen with the whole fake-altruism shit, up to and including contradicting every point in their mission statement and promise to investors in the "charity."
Things would be different for sure. I wonder if people leaving OpenAI has something to do with the prosaic comparison of what they are getting (a salary) and what he's getting (a cool $10B at the current valuation).
