{"id":1990,"date":"2023-11-22T16:48:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T00:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2024-10-12T10:35:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T17:35:15","slug":"humanitys-final-challenge-ai-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2023\/11\/22\/humanitys-final-challenge-ai-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanity\u2019s final challenge \u2013 AI profit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hello_dave.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hello_dave.png\" alt=\"Hello Dave\" class=\"wp-image-1899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hello_dave.png 600w, https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hello_dave-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hello_dave-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Much in the news cycle. Much buzz. I&#8217;ll expect books and a movie script for something even more epic that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Social_Network\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Social_Network\">The Social Connection<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OpenAI&#8217;s &#8220;<em>bizarre org chart<\/em>.&#8221; Mission creep or mission miscommunication? Was a wizard workers mass exit a real scenario? The twists and turns \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is &#8220;the problem posed by superintelligence&#8221; really &#8220;humanity\u2019s final challenge?&#8221; (Like in <em>The Foundation<\/em> or <em>Dune<\/em> novels?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Wired > email Newsletter > Steven Levy > Plaintext > The Plain View > &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openai-boardroom-drama-sam-altman-could-mess-up-your-future\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/openai-boardroom-drama-sam-altman-could-mess-up-your-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OpenAI\u2019s boardroom drama could mess up your future<\/a>&#8221; (November 22, 2023) \u2013 Reflecting on a conversation with chief scientist Ilya Sutskever at OpenAI\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>OpenAI began as a <em>nonprofit<\/em> research lab whose mission was to develop artificial intelligence on par or beyond human level\u2014termed <em>artificial general intelligence<\/em> or AGI\u2014in a safe way. The company discovered a promising path in large language models that generate strikingly fluid text, but developing and implementing those models required huge amounts of computing infrastructure and mountains of cash. This led OpenAI to create a <em>commercial entity<\/em> to draw outside investors, and it netted a major partner: Microsoft. Virtually everyone in the company worked for this new for-profit arm. But limits were placed on the company\u2019s commercial life. The profit delivered to investors was to be capped\u2014for the first backers at 100 times what they put in\u2014after which OpenAI would revert to a pure nonprofit. The whole shebang was governed by the original nonprofit\u2019s board, which answered only to the goals of the original mission and maybe God.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much in the news cycle. Much buzz. I&#8217;ll expect books and a movie script for something even more epic that The Social Connection. 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