Large carbon capture has been solved and demonstrated using a technique called iron fertilization. Basically just dump iron sulphate into ocean to simulate large algae bloom (nature best carbon capturer). They will then die to sink to bottom of ocean or eaten as part of ocean food chain. It was so successful weather actually registered temporary cooling in one of the experiment. It scared the regional government (Canada if I recalled correctly - probably directed by USA) this can solve the global warming and swiftly banned it. Government loves carbon taxation. Solving carbon issue is never a consideration. Even Greta has been trained to not touch about the real solution iron fertilization to solve climate change. Everything else solution at this stage can be effectively smoke and mirror scam encourage by worldwide governments. You can talk to Putin about how much he wants Siberia thawed. USA and EU loves the carbon taxes. Anyone thinking governments wanted reverse carbon capture, I have plenty of climate change books to sell you.
Maybe his account is not true premium as tied to old GM account. I had a few months last year. Quite pleasant compare to usual "naked" YT. But nowhere as good as vanced and then revanced, UBO, VPN+Adguard, pi-hole, and tonnes of fake Google account created from all over the world and outsourced the passworded access to 3rd world to be abused so to confuse Google algorithm. Since using all these to thwart Google tracking and ads, I stopped YT premium after 3rd months as really no point I can do better than their premium service - and cheaper too. I thought premium frees up my time to tinker but they still track and occasionally ads do get thru.
The act of mixing or laundering isn't per se illegal. The issue is government couldn't track illegal activities generated funds used in that mixing. It is the same with encryption, it isnt wrong when you encrypt but government will hunt you down if you export that tech to others. They will also hunt you down if you dont modify you encryption tech to their liking quietly. Even court sided with government in every countries. If you mixing the money in jar with a bunch of crook, and refuse to cooperate with government, they will hunt you down. So the issue isnt really they can't do the mixing. They didnt want to cooperate with government. Hence what we see now is just normal government hunting. Macfee and Bobby Fischer had gone thru this and paid dearly for not cooperating with government - legal or not.
Microsoft own OpenAI equity. Technically he has the authority to do so. At this point he cant do Elon firing as they need to preserve the stock price. You can say in a way the existing board turn rogue and hold him hostage. Once this settle, you will see near 100% board changes. If this not happening, half the OpenAI staff will be gone before next year 4th of July. At that point, their equity will worth significantly less. The crux of OpenAI is not their chatgpt but gpu. They are like Apple and Amazon big enough to make their own gpu. Sam wants to secure gpu access by founding a 2nd NVIDIA. Even if not, they can still be kingmaker. Whoever gpu being used, you will see that stock price shoot up....yes if Intel Arc. The board members arent that smart and thought he try to circumvent them. It is basically ego power play. They never realize how powerful and influential Sam is. At this point it is too late for those board members. Expect them to get shunt by evety investors in SV. As for Quora....hahaha...pretty much another Evernote fate.
He can poach away half the staff IMMEDIATELY. You cannot run a company with majority of your key personnels gone in a week. Then the remaining staff will be moving over within 3mths to a year. What OpenAI will be left in a year time will be back to square one, startup mode. Whatever tech they have now it will stay stagnant. Whatever tech Altman started in his new venture will be just slightly behind what OpenAI has. Within a year Altman will supercede it. He is that important. Think Steve Jobs to Apple but AI.
Those people have kids and mortgages and car payments. And are very well compensated. They aren’t gone by this time next week. Is there any precedent for that? Nobody does that.
Yeah sure eventually he could poach people and it’s always possible that this is the beginning of a transition but there’s some seriously magical thinking going on here.
I have no reason to believe Sam Altman's a similar case, but have you heard of Nick Calandra? He was editor and chief of the escapist. Last week he got fired, the entire video department (~20 people) resigned and they immediately started a company together called Second Wind.
OpenAI has 700 and they’re highly compensated. How would you even onboard and meet payroll in a week for a non existent entity if you suddenly had even half that number?
Answer is that won’t happen. The point being most sane people will wait around to see if anything really changes. Why wouldn’t they, what do they even have to lose by waiting?
> How would you even onboard and meet payroll in a week for a non existent entity if you suddenly had even half that number?
> Answer is that won’t happen. The point being most sane people will wait around to see if anything really changes. Why wouldn’t they, what do they even have to lose by waiting?
Not saying it will happen but I'd honestly say this would be the least of the issues. VC's and established companies would be fighting tooth and nail to invest money in whatever venture Sam Altman/Greg Brockman + whatever % of staffers were launching. Money would not be the problem here. Think of how much money so many were willing to throw at the con-job that the vast majority of crypto was and then think of how much money they would throw at AI tools (which are clearly a big deal already).
As far as I can tell Altman’s real serious talent is getting billionaire types to like him. First Paul Graham then Elon and the initial OpenAI funders. In both cases he seems to have been dropped rather abruptly after running things for a few years.
He has never personally built meaningful tech and has definitely never actually demonstrated anything approaching popularity with any rank and file employees.
Might happen. But it sure hasn’t yet. I don’t doubt that the Davos / Bohemian Grove set will install him in another position though, he does seem to have a genuine knack for that.
Not just the billionaire type though, right? We are discussing staff leaving with him for that very reason.
And he did VC fund-raising before that for early projects too. Give his Wikipedia a read.
He is clearly a very savvy businessman and smooth operator on a personal level. And has been involved in enough high profile successes that I don't think it is a fluke.
It's not like he's going to have any trouble at all raising enough money to match their compensation, and if he's going to build the ruthlessly for profit version who wouldnt switch over? These folks make too much money to care about kids and mortgages and car payments.
Get back to college. In coming recession around the corner 2024 to 2026 extremely likely. You go into college and get shielded. Study hard and score well. Get all the pro certs you can. Do master if possible. Specialize only on AI+Blockchain (using Java+Python+Rust+C). You will thank me later.
Microsoft owns near half of OpenAI. Meanwhile OpenAI staff pretty much consider Altman as their chieftain. If Altman return, the board has to resign. If Altman going out, near entire OpenAI staff (especially the key personnel) will follow Altman. Then board still has to resign because OpenAI collapse internally. So either way, the board has to resign...difference just when. Board did bad moves. Obviously a few factions developed likely jeoulous of Altman fame.
I don't believe this is true, especially given OpenAI's weird corporate structure with non-profit and for-profit entities. I could be wrong.
> Meanwhile OpenAI staff pretty much consider Altman as their chieftain....
> If Altman going out, near entire OpenAI staff (especially the key personnel) will follow Altman.
Again, not saying you're wrong since I have no first hand info. But do you have first hand info on this, or is this speculation based on various reports. Genuinely curious..
I'm wondering how the employees can move to a company doing essentially the exact same thing without any violation of privileged information from their old jobs.
The only thing I can assume is that there's nothing particularly proprietary about anything OpenAI has done, its just an issue of scale. But if that's the case, it would make them not that valuable, as anyone willing to invest enough to reach that same scale using the same non proprietary techniques would be just as good.
None of the open models available to these local tools benchmark as well as the closed OpenAI model but the benchmarks are weird. In my own poking around, some models are definitely less coherent or more detailed for some specific prompts but it’s mostly the same.
These are likely just money laundering within government officials and military complex. None of it has been tested in real life war/battle. If you have seen how American-built decimated in Syria, Yemen and Ukraine, you would take this write up just some grain of salt. I recalled in 80s we had some cool star war laser defense. It even made it into Sid Meier Civ game as irrelevant near end game SDI. Today we largely know that was just fake news cooked by Reagan. Nearly 1T usd spend every year got stalemate by Putin's full of corruptions 60B budget. Meanwhile Russia and China demonstrated their satellite killer programs recently. Even their hypersonic missiles scared American pacific carriers to park a few thousand miles away from Chinese shores. Ah, and that B21 raider...
That is BS mantra by economist that failed as entrepreneurs. 1990 to 2010 American booms largely help by lower production prices from China. Your average laptops and computers from the 90s tend to drop prices bigly from $10K mac to somewhere around $2K. Let me know how bad Apple did. Let le know how worst off Americans during those low gas prices and cheap GPUs.
