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OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend — LessWrong

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Approximately four GPTs and seven years ago, OpenAI’s founders brought forth on this corporate landscape a new entity, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men might live equally when AGI is created. Now we are engaged in a great corporate war, testing whether that entity, or any entity so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. What matters is not theory but practice. What happens when the chips are down? So what happened? What prompted it? What will happen now? To a large extent, even more than usual, we do not know. We should not pretend that we know more than we do. Rather than attempt to interpret here or barrage with an endless string of reactions and quotes, I will instead do my best to stick to a compilation of the key facts. (Note: All times stated here are eastern by default.) What do we know for sure, or at least close to sure? Here is OpenAI’s corporate structure, giving the board of the 501c3 the power to hire and fire the CEO. It is explici

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