Yep it's extremely early days. Think about what companies were dominating in 2000. Yahoo, askjeeves, MapQuest etc. Now of course big tech didn't exist back then and now they will do anything to keep their stranglehold on. Looking at you Google
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Apple Reportedly in Talks to Invest in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI
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Sorry, you’re right, I was thinking of Tesla (where he did buy the founder title). He appears to have been a cofounding member of OpenAI.
I'm curious. What is it that makes it so indispensible? Are you using it for your job, or for everyday tasks.
Apple should stay away. This is just software. And software in a category at its most nascent form. Stay away or wait for the AI market to consolidate, oversaturate or crash, then buy. It's an important category. but there is plenty of time to scoop up some deals when inevitably a better method appears. OpenAI has all of its eggs in LLMS where we are still unsure if this is the right road for AI.
The problem is that Apple is already putting ChatGPT into their products (the iPhones launching next month) with no control or influence over what‘s being developed. So they’re already breaking their privacy promise. If they invest, they’ll have some influence (though likely not as much as Microsoft, and definitely not enough to overcome the company’s overall moral bankruptcy).
I’d much rather see them purchase an upstart competitor and build a privacy-compliant product, but they don’t seem to want to do that.
Here's the question to ask ourselves: why is WSJ publishing this story?
Ok, the obvious first answer is that the WSJ has to publish something everyday, to fill up column space to get eyes on their product.
Beyond that, though, the real question is who is floating this balloon about OpenAI? Is someone at OpenAI desperate to gain more acceptance in the public's eye (leveraging brand "Apple", as the most admired brand for consumers) as a "good guy" in the face of their legal issue(s)??
Is it Apple, who are trying some sort of keep-them-guessing strategy, so people ignore what Apple is really doing?
Ok, the obvious first answer is that the WSJ has to publish something everyday, to fill up column space to get eyes on their product.
Beyond that, though, the real question is who is floating this balloon about OpenAI? Is someone at OpenAI desperate to gain more acceptance in the public's eye (leveraging brand "Apple", as the most admired brand for consumers) as a "good guy" in the face of their legal issue(s)??
Is it Apple, who are trying some sort of keep-them-guessing strategy, so people ignore what Apple is really doing?
Or is it someone trying to hurt Apple right before their iPhone launch?
the ketamine addicted fascist timeline is certainly an interesting one for him to choose
The fundamentals of most of today's LLMS are open-source. The transformer model developed by researchers at Google for translation tasks is at the heart of most of today's LLMS. OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever took the idea of transformers and ran with it. Believing that massively scaling it up would be the way forward. The scaling has been massively expensive, and the use of other people's data is controversial if not illegal. With more and more money required to continue scaling and companies like Nvidia possibly price gouging to feed the addiction and incredible amounts of energy required to feed the compute, the question is, will there be a return on investment? Especially once governments around the world suck the fun out of it. The value of what they have unleased is obvious and incalculable, but who exactly profits from it is still up in the air.
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If it is only in siri then that is fine as I don't use Siri anyway, also I can always refuse to update to Sequoia.
i changed to a Mac last year as I did not like the way windows was going with all this AI rubbish. Sure, Apple will ask for your permission, so at least it is a bit better. But I have no interest in this AI stuff.
Maybe I should have gone Linux instead.
i changed to a Mac last year as I did not like the way windows was going with all this AI rubbish. Sure, Apple will ask for your permission, so at least it is a bit better. But I have no interest in this AI stuff.
Maybe I should have gone Linux instead.
How much does chatGPT cost anyway? Can't be more than the money Apple spent on trying to build a steering wheel for their failed car
Why can't both things matter for different reasons? People are more complex than you give them credit for, even Elon.
It would also be nice if Apple built their own semiconductor fab. But that would be a poor use of capital.
The facts: OpenAI created a “capped profit” structure in 2019, allowing investment by for-profit entities.
Here's a link to OpenAI's mission statement, if you're interested:
The facts: OpenAI created a “capped profit” structure in 2019, allowing investment by for-profit entities.
Here's a link to OpenAI's mission statement, if you're interested:
https://openai.com/our-structure/
Who created ChatGPT were the workers… the software engineers, the hardware engineers, the university researchers, the factory workers that build chips, the factory workers that build the machines that build chips, the miners that mined the minerals to make chips, the truck drivers that transport the minerals….
And that is true for Tesla, SpaceX Rockets, IPhones and anything you consume.
Did Elon, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates created anything? Probably, when they were workers… until they became something else… something that doesn’t create, something that doesn’t produce… something that only… owns.
People like Elon, are not part of the working class, but of the capitalist class. Their hours are not spent on work, their hours are spent on ruling.
These are the founders of OpenAI.
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba.
Elon Musk just like he does with all his investments wanted to take over OpenAI and they told him no, so he left after having invested $45 million.
I find ChatGPT to be a great search engine. It gives you relevant result without having to read a bunch of useless content and if you don’t have an ad blocker, see a bunch of ads.
But since we can’t have nice things, I ask myself how are they going to turn it to crap by injecting ads, propaganda or turn the experience worse.
But since we can’t have nice things, I ask myself how are they going to turn it to crap by injecting ads, propaganda or turn the experience worse.
This company started off by stealing basically every copyrighted written and visual work they could get their hands on and incorporating it into their plagiarism software... so I guess crime does pay?
I just don't want it on my phone. Smooshy uncanny-valley CGI pictures give me the creeps.
I just don't want it on my phone. Smooshy uncanny-valley CGI pictures give me the creeps.
