OpenAI lacks a competitive advantage and will become commoditized

“Glorious. We can quote ourselves at each other, lol. I had a look at AI2027 in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648601That comment specifically addresses the timeline, but you can remove the timeline and I believe the critique still holds up. Wake me up when AI is making order of magnitude improvements in _anything_ physical: see the "Moravec's Paradox" comment at the bottom.> near autonomous AI companies todayThat's the thing though. "near" autonomous. Humans have alpha, and”

“The point is, him being an insider means he knows what he's talking about regarding the culture of negligence prevalent there.AI is a force multiplier for intelligence. Even if "aligned", aligned with whom or what?Whom are you comfortable with, lording as some sort of demi-god over you?AI doesn't tell you what goals you want it to achieve. Allowing people to destroy human society with it is obviously not a good idea.”

“Why doesn't OpenAI do this? Are they stupid? submitted by /u/burakudoctor [link] [comments]”

“I love the hyperbolic language."enlisting an influencer army"put 'good for the world' in quotes because obviously it's notA more neutral headline would be: OpenAI Is Enlisting Influencers to Promote Its Public Image.The rest of the article reads like anti-AI slop. For instance:> The company isn't asking influencers to assuage fears that a rogue AI could destroy humanity.It is weird how prominent anti-AI sentiment is online and in media. It's by far the most popular and fastest growing technology”

“I said people wanted credit more often than I had expected. You said "Way to straw man all counter arguments before they even got any."The current point you're making is (I think) that OSS devs don't want credit, they want to be free of spam. I, for example, host my free software on fossil and don't accept contributions at all. It's not that I don't want them, it's that I don't want the noise, so I feel like that's a valid way to distribute open source.But when I raise that, you're saying I'm mo”

“You can only opt out of direct training. They can still use your input for a variety of purposes, including the wonderfully vague development and improvement of their services. "Our use of content. We may use Content to provide, maintain, develop, and improve our Services, comply with applicable law, enforce our terms and policies, and keep our Services safe. " Content is defined as "input" and "output" earlier in the terms. If you are under Business Terms, there ar”

“Maybe, as an alternative to your last statement, instead you should consider how absurd your claims are. And pretending that it is wrong for me to make assessments of the outcome, when your position is also based on assessments of an outcome, is a very unmaintainable position to hold.How about you simply discuss the meat of it, instead of gnawing at the bone? How about, instead of complaining that my assessed outcome, is different than your assessed outcome, with statements akin to "but.. but”

“'AGI' here defined as whatever Altman wants 'AGI' to be. This has always been the problem with terms such as "AGI" and "AI". They don't mean anything in particular. Depending on how you twist it, we first had "AI in the 80s, in the late 00s, in the early 20s, this month or never.”

“Isn't that the problem with this whole thing? The ethics of the people has been left unquestioned. While we were given this straw man - "Hey look over here at the ethics we are working on fixing about the AIs" as if the AIs make choices without humans we forgot how to hold people accountable.edit: same problem and tactics we see with leadership at high levels in government.”

“None of those are AGI data point points. LLMs are making terrific progress but it's unknown whether they're progressing towards true AGI or in some other direction.”

“Yeah you’re probably right. OpenAI is quite blatant about breaking other rules. (Apple is currently suing them for allegedly directly instructing new hires poached from Apple to copy entire documents before they leave)”

“OpenAI is a deeply mismanaged company. Most recently, a blog post that feels like it has got to have dozens of PR violations, responding to the Apple lawsuit.More broadly, OpenAI’s main problem is that it does not have a real competitive advantage. No real models do; the real differentiation is price; they will become commodities. The need to move upwards in the market in enterprise software is difficult since the current stack should remain the same, since sticking with Salesforce plus its new”

“OpenAI is a deeply mismanaged company. Most recently, a blog post that feels like it has got to have dozens of PR violations, responding to the Apple lawsuit.More broadly, OpenAI's main problem is that it does not have a real competitive advantage. No real models do; the real differentiation is price; they will become commodities.So while at first it may look like OpenAI is doing too much, it is a desperate attempt to create some kind of real, defensible business, and show some proof of such bef”

“I think we desperately need to start differentiating between "is creating" and "has created". I have a couple of "am creating" projects too, but their proximity to "have created" is directly proportional to how much effort and expertise _I_ am bringing, not so much related to the AI's contribution.”