Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao
Sam Altman is not a good guy and we are trusting him with what could be existential technology. He has had issues with family members. He is a smooth talker with many connections in Silicon Valley. He was ousted from OpenAI for very valid reasons. Alas, there was not sufficient backbone to keep him out and he returned stronger than ever. Despite being called OpenAI, the company is very secretive. As a startup they were able to skirt the law and train their models on other people's IP. They would also outsource data annotation to many poorer companies, leaving some destruction in the wake. They also worked on massively scaling up hardware to accelerate improvements. Alas, this requires huge data centers and massive amounts of water.
Some people got tired of OpenAI and went to form Anthropic. Google and Microsoft have gone all-in on their AIs. It is nice to see Open AI demoted in importance. Alas, the AI arms race is still ongoing. What will the impact be on humanity?
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