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Open AI

  • Sam Altman worked at Y Combinator (a business incubator)
  • With that business acumen, he got funding to OpenAI in 2015
  • At first it was a non-profit organization
  • In order to attract talents, the promise was that there was no need to generate profit
  • The opposite of Google was doing with DeepMind
  • This liberty proposal was important because AI researchers believe AI can be the greatest or worst invention of humanity, depending on how it is applied
  • p(doom): probability of bad outcomes of AI
  • Boomers: AI can only bring good results
  • Doomers: AI will collapse and extinguish humanity
  • When OpenAI became for profit
  • Sam Altman became CEO
  • Elon Musk was kicked out and founded xAI
  • Dario Amodei left and founded Anthropic