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Puzzleheaded_Pop_743 t1_j9yn3fa wrote

Reply to comment by No_Ninja3309_NoNoYes in Open AI officially talking about the coming AGI and superintelligence. by alfredo70000

I disagree with this theory. Microsoft has put so much money into OpenAI I struggle to see how they would need more money now.

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9985172177 t1_j9yxd4s wrote

There is no end to how much money they need. How often have the richest people in the world said they don't need more? They get into that position by never having enough.

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Class-Concious7785 t1_ja03mu5 wrote

> How often have the richest people in the world said they don't need more? They get into that position by never having enough.

Except that is greed, rather than a genuine need for more money

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9985172177 t1_ja2nelc wrote

Yes, that's the principle that companies like openai run on though. For them there is no such thing as a "struggle to see how they would need more".

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Puzzleheaded_Pop_743 t1_ja2opqx wrote

There is such thing as hippie CEOs. Not all heads of companies are greedy. The culture and values of the people working at a company shape that company's values.

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9985172177 t1_ja8217x wrote

The people behind openai specifically are not hippie CEOs though. Usually the hippie CEOs spawn up independently, kind of from their own bubbles. Openai came out of the same hyper-growth venture capital world as facebook, airbnb, ycombinator, and others. And it's not that it was made by some founders that then went through accelerator programs, it was founded and pre-funded by those executives. That's why it's so weird that people are celebrating that aspect of it.

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