Very much appreciate the write-up trevor; especially the substantively lengthy quotes. As other commentators have pointed out, the dichotomy between the two apparent ‘factions’ is quite clear. A faction of non-profit focus, tentative approach towards development, and conviction of Large Language Models’ climb to Artifical General Intelligence makes up one side. The other side is a faction looking to capitalize upon OpenAI’s current advances before they are commonplace and which has reservations about the capability for Large Language Models to become a form of Artificial General Intelligence.
As to Sam Altman’s return, perhaps the only possible cause of such an outcome will be investor/stakeholder pressure. Will/can such pressure be enough? The support that Samuel Altman has thus far received from colleagues and employees seems to me an organic, knee-jerk rally. This signals to me the possible spawning of a new organization by him from a position of strength. Not to say there was no willingness to collaborate and/or to finance before his ousting, just that the circumstances (story) yield an ‘under-dog’ bystanders would enthusiastically back (bet on).
Very much appreciate the write-up trevor; especially the substantively lengthy quotes. As other commentators have pointed out, the dichotomy between the two apparent ‘factions’ is quite clear. A faction of non-profit focus, tentative approach towards development, and conviction of Large Language Models’ climb to Artifical General Intelligence makes up one side. The other side is a faction looking to capitalize upon OpenAI’s current advances before they are commonplace and which has reservations about the capability for Large Language Models to become a form of Artificial General Intelligence.
As to Sam Altman’s return, perhaps the only possible cause of such an outcome will be investor/stakeholder pressure. Will/can such pressure be enough? The support that Samuel Altman has thus far received from colleagues and employees seems to me an organic, knee-jerk rally. This signals to me the possible spawning of a new organization by him from a position of strength. Not to say there was no willingness to collaborate and/or to finance before his ousting, just that the circumstances (story) yield an ‘under-dog’ bystanders would enthusiastically back (bet on).