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AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

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OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO - get me off this ride it's too dumb (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OpenAI’s current board consists of chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo, former GeoSim Systems CEO Tasha McCauley, and Helen Toner, the director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Unlike traditional companies, the board isn’t tasked with maximizing shareholder value, and none of them hold equity in OpenAI.

We're not like, your traditional company. We do small plates.

Instead, their stated mission is to ensure the creation of “broadly beneficial” artificial general intelligence, or AGI.

Thought they were trying to melt the ice caps tbh.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't this just how every tech company starts out? Google just want to help you find things on the web. Facebook just wants you to help connect with friends. We are very serious people doing serious work for humanity and you need to listen to us, and possibly give us things for free. It's all about positioning.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh for sure. Another way to think about that is: they actually are honestly and genuinely trying to help humanity with their inventions and so forth, except for them “humanity” is just the wallet of whoever is bankrolling them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

oh they can be 100% sincere about their humanitarian ideals. But investor RTO, need for revenue streams to cover expenses, general market forces - these will always outstrip and determine the final cause of a company. Ideals don't matter, eventually, at most, PR in the service of expanding market share, intentionally or not.