merge-and-assist clause [...] we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project
So, if you don’t think AI should be open (because that looks dangerous), has anyone considered just … changing the name? (At least, the name of the organization, even if the “OpenAI API” as a product has the string openai embedded in the code too much.) Yeah, it’s inconvenient, but … Alphabet did it! Meta did it! If you’re trying to make the most important event in the history of life go well, isn’t it worth a little inconvenience to be clear about what that entails?
So, if you don’t think AI should be open (because that looks dangerous), has anyone considered just … changing the name? (At least, the name of the organization, even if the “OpenAI API” as a product has the string
openai
embedded in the code too much.) Yeah, it’s inconvenient, but … Alphabet did it! Meta did it! If you’re trying to make the most important event in the history of life go well, isn’t it worth a little inconvenience to be clear about what that entails?How’s it gonna go over if they start calling it closed ai?
So call it something else. GoodAI. OpalAI. BeneficiAI. ThoroughAI.
Or OpEnAi: Optimally Envisioning AI. Then the code can still say
openai
.