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Apple Reportedly in Talks to Invest in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI
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Oprah is doing an interview with Altman which is the death knell for OpenAI - that woman knows how to make money by killing tech better than anyone in silicon valley.
Microsoft already pretty much owns them with the Billions they have invested in them, even Apple couldn't buy them. Who would have thought Apple and MS would get married by AI lol.
MS does not give a stuff about consumers or business. It’s just busy installing bloat and ads and nickel and diming everyone. Windows will be a subscription service at some point. And Copilot is everywhere in MS products regardless of you want it or not. And it is still hit and miss. I would rather Apple did it right then that whole throw something at the wall to see what sticks.
Elon funded OpenAI because he didn’t want Deepmind being too dominant controlled by Google. To be non profit and opensource. Then some weird hacking of the legal system and it’s now a for profit company, closed source, controlled by Mcrosoft and soon also Apple.
Some serious mental gymanstics is required to explain how you can
1. Start a non profit, not pay taxes, create IP, transfer IP to a for profit company
2. Raise money from philanthropists promising to not be for profit, become for profit
3. Raise money from philanthropists promising to not be opensource, become closed source
Need to have some serious Elon Derangement Syndrome to think that this is good, legally okay and totally not worth questioning.
Some serious mental gymanstics is required to explain how you can
1. Start a non profit, not pay taxes, create IP, transfer IP to a for profit company
2. Raise money from philanthropists promising to not be for profit, become for profit
3. Raise money from philanthropists promising to not be opensource, become closed source
Need to have some serious Elon Derangement Syndrome to think that this is good, legally okay and totally not worth questioning.
its a good question.
for my job.
we specialise in providing turn key websites.
customers give us their concept/business strategy/vision.
we give them a website that matches their desired market image and vision.
we do not use Chat GPT for any text/word related functions.
current level of Chat GPT is only good at text/word related paragraphs and explanations that lack character; lack human emotion; lack any sense of spirit. not capable of creating any sense of an emotional bond between company+customer.
we do use Chat GPT to create about 70% of the images that we use in our website creation.
(not photo-real images, but illustration type images).
i have had to learn how Chat GPT thinks in order to alter my prompts to it.
the better i learned its limitations, and adjusted my prompts, the better the result.
i have also begun to see clearly Chat GPT's cultural biases as well.
all LLMs are only products of what they have been fed.
feed them Western biased material, and they can only churn out a very Western view of the world.
example: if you give Chat GPT image creation tool only a simple prompt such as "create image of two Japanese people in a home in the USA having coffee with a western looking American", alot of the times Chat GPT cant figure out that just because i want to represent japanese people, i definitely dont want them wearing kimono! in that american home.
so currently Chat GPT thinks: "ah, he wants Japanese people, so Japanese people wear kimono."
however, this level of "mistake" can be corrected by the person giving better more precise definitions.
but still, its an iterative process sometimes requiring a back and forth of 20 or 30 times to get an image that might be useful.
i have also noticed that Chat GPT image creation does a better job at it if it is left unbrided. it does less well if you define the exact and precise conditions you want. its almost as if you are confusing it and it cant handle or "see" or "understand" or "comprehend" an image with the prompts you are giving. and it really does only begrudgingly give you what you want. this is impacted by what it has been fed and the cultural and logical biases of that information.
in the near future, each great culture of the world will have their own localised material that will allow the LLM to churn out images and logic and morals/ethics that are in line with the localised culture.
i dont worry about huge 1st world economically powerful cultures such as Chinese, Japanese, and Russian cultures.
these countries will have enough money and talent to build LLM that reflect their cultural biases.
but smaller, less economically advanced cultures, but still wonderfully unique and beautiful, these cultures will lose alot of their uniqueness in this AI world. unique and subtle sensitivities of these small yet beautiful cultures will not be well represented in this brave new world of AI.
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Could see this as the turning point on Apple’s privacy journey.
OpenAI is ran by some awful people and they are very unethical on the AI side of things.
OpenAI is ran by some awful people and they are very unethical on the AI side of things.
What’s so bad is the writing has been on the wall for years that things are headed this way. And Apple releases a pair of ski goggles instead. The Vision Pro is a sunk cost fallacy product if I ever saw one.
Both, for me it easily replaces google. I also chat with it to learn about stuff while driving
Elon Musk was one of the co-founders of OpenAI. He, along with others like Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, and Peter Thiel, helped establish the organization in 2015. Musk’s involvement was significant in the early stages, particularly in providing initial funding and shaping the organization’s mission to develop artificial intelligence in a way that benefits humanity.
However, Musk stepped down from the board of OpenAI in 2018 to avoid any potential conflicts of interest, as Tesla was increasingly involved in AI-related projects, particularly in autonomous driving technology. Since then, while he has occasionally commented on AI and its development, Musk has not been directly involved in the day-to-day operations or decisions at OpenAI.
"Obscured" eh? So they'll digitally redact them, or not display them. But they may store them. I mean, just in case anyone wants to front up enough money to buy them, or the powers above, whoever they are at the time, come a-knocking on their door?
Sorry if that's a blatantly obvious observation to everybody, it was the first thing I spotted. "Obscured" is a weasel word and needs to be thoroughly defined here.
it's about how people don't follow the same logic with OpenAI as they do with Tesla founder status.
applying a standard for one company and a different standard for another company for the sole purpose of dunking on someone you dislike proves bias and not objectivity.
it sounds like what I said doesn't apply to you. I'm talking about those who cared so much about who founded Tesla.
He was an early investor and then he got out. He was not the only investor, just one of several. It’s not like OpenAI is Elon’s baby.
How are they breaking their privacy promise? The integration with ChatGPT is optional and very limited. Their contract with openAI prevents openAI from storing any data it gets from users and from doing any training on user data. Apple has the right to audit openAI’s compliance in this.
Apple’s contract with openAI stipulates that they are not able to store any data from a request or information about the request. In addition, Apple is not sending your IP address, it is passing the request through Apple systems using a different IP address. Similar to what it can do with Safari.