OpenAI ditches non-profit board, will spin off as venture capital lottery ticket

2 years ago by David Gerard to c/techtakes

dgerard 35 points 2 years ago

It's March 2025. Everyone has resigned from OpenAI except Altman, a single H1B programmer, 50 lawyers, and the guy who refills the keurig. The company is worth $4 trillion.

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istewart 4 points 2 years ago

I guess in this scenario, Balaji's fetishized hyperinflation finally happens sometime in the next 6 months.

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fasterandworse 26 points 2 years ago

They’re gonna start announcing real concrete nefarious-ass use cases real soon

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SnotFlickerman 14 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't be shocked at a working agreement with Palmer Luckey's Anduril to offer AI-assisted god-knows-what to Anduril's military/surveillance hardware.

EDIT: my brain took a dookie and I mixed up Luckey's first and last names.

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YourNetworkIsHaunted 3 points 2 years ago

To be fair, Luckey Palmer is an objectively funnier name.

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dgerard 14 points 2 years ago

World's least efficient baby mulcher

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SnotFlickerman 7 points 2 years ago

A Bill Hicks routine manifest:

"What did ya do with your AI today, Sam?"

"Oh, we made ah, we made ah, arsenic ah, childhood food now, goodnight."

[lays down and snores]

"Yeah, we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?"

[snores]

"Yeah, it'll... you know the mums will love it."

[snores]

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xantoxis 20 points 2 years ago

He'll be out of there with the bag in less than a year.

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mii 19 points 2 years ago

Oh no! But what happened to We’re not doing it for the money but the good of humanity, and If anybody approaches AGI before us we will shut down and use all our resources to help them instead?

It’s almost as if all of that has been nothing but a load of bullshit from the beginning.

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spankmonkey 19 points 2 years ago

Should rename themselves ClosedAI

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breadsmasher 11 points 2 years ago

The non-profit is core to our mission and will continue to exist

an obvious lie.

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dgerard 6 points 2 years ago

with pivot to AI commentary

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bitofhope 5 points 2 years ago

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Glorified markov chains $5000000000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my investors are dying

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Evinceo 2 points 2 years ago

RIP rationalist moonshot. Takes a special kind of SV-libertarian brainrot to think the world will be saved by a company. Do we have EY's reaction yet?

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