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I don't think that Sam guy has a good understanding of what intelligence is. One test for that is to know the difference between a for-profit and a non-profit organization. I'm starting to believe that this guy will say anything in order for the masses to purchase his questionable product.
Pretty sure that's well established
Didn't he pretend to not pay himself/not care about money, and then was filmed driving a multi-million $$ super car?
He's one in a long line of compulsive liars
He doesn't pay himself ... on a technicality. Rich folk in general don't spend money like you or I do. They don't even actually have money like you or I do. They're leveraged to the hilt using their stock shares to finance loans and then live off the loans. (This is a tax evasion thing.) So he can claim he's not taking a salary or being paid even while spending a million dollars a day.
And once they have this much "fuck you" money lying around for free, they don't care about money. It would be like you caring about air. It's just ... there.
Only because we've not yet poisoned it to the point where breathable air becomes the most obscene pay-to-live feature.
Don't worry. They're working on it.
OpenAI hasn't been a non-profit since the Microsoft board takeover. Also formally, not only in practice.
To a devout capitalist, anything and everything can and should be turned into a commodity. First, we need people to get hooked on the convenience of not having to think for themselves, let their natural intelligence wither from disuse, then charge them for the privilege-turned-necessity of outsourced intelligence.
His understanding of just about anything is focused on two questions: