No one has picked up the true origin of OpenAI yet. If you dig in to it, you will see some revealing declarations and emails. The whole idea for a non-profit open AI organization and the commitment to share the benefits with humanity by the name of Open AI came through theft. https://archive.ph/1wEOX
Rings true. I’m not sure it pushes me much on the ethics of OpenAI; somebody else had a good idea for a philosophy and a name to push for AI in a certain (maybe dumb) direction; they recognized it as a good idea and appropriated it for their own similar project. Should they have used a more different name? Probably. Should they have used a more different philosophical argument? No. Should they have brought Guy Ravine on board? Probably not; his vision for how the thing would actually go was very different from theirs, and none of his skills were really that relevant. He’d have been in arguments with them from the start.
Is this the right way for industry to work? Nope. But nobody knows how to properly give credit for good but broad ideas.
None of this is to endorse anything or anyone related to OpenAI, just to say it’s pretty standard practice.
No one has picked up the true origin of OpenAI yet. If you dig in to it, you will see some revealing declarations and emails. The whole idea for a non-profit open AI organization and the commitment to share the benefits with humanity by the name of Open AI came through theft. https://archive.ph/1wEOX
Rings true. I’m not sure it pushes me much on the ethics of OpenAI; somebody else had a good idea for a philosophy and a name to push for AI in a certain (maybe dumb) direction; they recognized it as a good idea and appropriated it for their own similar project. Should they have used a more different name? Probably. Should they have used a more different philosophical argument? No. Should they have brought Guy Ravine on board? Probably not; his vision for how the thing would actually go was very different from theirs, and none of his skills were really that relevant. He’d have been in arguments with them from the start.
Is this the right way for industry to work? Nope. But nobody knows how to properly give credit for good but broad ideas.
None of this is to endorse anything or anyone related to OpenAI, just to say it’s pretty standard practice.