OpenAI just replaced its core values with completely different ones
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This article is clickbait at best
If me and best friends start a company, we can get by "Let's do good" and we all know what that means. In an organization with 1000 spread across the globe, that doesn't cut it and good needs to be explicitly spelled out
"Intense and scrappy," "Scale," "Make something people love," and "Team spirit," sound like values the San Francisco Giants are looking for in a new manager. I hope so, anyway.
It took them a year or so to even add back in extension support. and so many things lacked for a long time.
I don't feel like using a product that is so horribly planned, amd executed. Sheer incompetence.
For mobile I use Vivaldi which is not bad. The adblocker isn't as good as uBlock Origin but is mostly good enough, and the builtin dark mode works really well.
On Android, I installed Firefox and uBlock Origin. It was pretty cool that the same thing I use on desktop Firefox (and other browsers) also works on mobile.
Except that it seems like Chrome on Android doesn't seem to support extensions, so I basically can't fix that browser, which mostly prevents me from using it for anything.
That said, I might soon get an iPhone (for developing/testing an app, which will probably also mean a MacBook, since they don't officially offer their software on other platforms), so I hope that things will work out there as well.
Wireguard is pretty great.
[1] I configure pihole to use a local unbound installation on the same machine but you don't have to bother with that at all https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/
settings->battery claims that it uses about 10% of my battery in 10 hours, or about as much as less than 20 minutes of firefox use.
I previously had an ulefone armor 9 which had vastly better battery life with a 3+ year old battery after switching off battery saver hacks and making no effort eg running wireguard 24/7, than the iphone 15 pro, which kinda sucks pretty hard. Struggles to get through a day. No idea how much of that is my fault. Settings claims basically none of it is, but can it be believed?
iPhone is super expensive for a device that does so many fundamental things so incredibly badly with fixes that must have been obvious for a decade. One example of many is the sheer idiocy of silent mode. My nokia 20 years(?) ago let you set it to silent for 2 hours so you weren't stuffed if you forgot to do it manually when the thing was over. Not iphone. iPhone pings when you go to bed and put it on charge when it claims to be in "sleep mode" which is just idiotic. Sucks if your partner was asleep and that's why you wanted it silent at that time. No way they haven't got feedback on that after what, 15 years of iphone? I took them a decade to replace the old silent mode switch that changes position to silent accidentally all the time for elderly relatives so I guess that's some kind of improvement but wow.
Oh before people take it personally, android sucks. And those are our only choices other than no longer participating in society.
Haven't found anything more effective on iOS yet.
The UX is nice; the switch to toggle JS for the current site is right under a drop-down menu in the URL bar, and it remembers your settings for each site independently.
I got several as they went on sale, and am trying AdBlock Pro right now, on the theory that newer and more up to date ones will more effectively anti-anti-adblock.
I found AdGuard Pro in my extensions. Must have been on sale, as it's the pricey "no subscription" version of the product. Will try if the above doesn't work out (I expect that it will)
- OpenAI recently changed its core values from ones focused on thoughtfulness, impact, collaboration to ones focused on artificial general intelligence and scale.
- The new core values were changed without explanation and raise questions about how core they truly were.
- The top new core value is an "AGI focus" but OpenAI's definition of AGI has shifted from superhuman to average human-level intelligence.
- OpenAI was originally founded to build beneficial AI but has shifted to a for-profit model, which led to co-founder Elon Musk's departure.
- The company now describes itself as focused on building safe and beneficial AGI.
- OpenAI's goals and self-descriptions have changed over time along with its shifting business model and leadership changes.
- Questions remain around what exactly OpenAI means by AGI and its commitment to ensuring AI safety.
- The new core values list comes across as vague marketing language.
- OpenAI's focus now appears to be primarily on developing general artificial intelligence for commercial purposes.
- The article raises concerns about OpenAI's lack of transparency and consistency in its stated goals and values over time.
https://chat.openai.com/share/251675a4-7b46-470e-a14e-fe6cf3...
Ha! I like the subtle burn (and hint that OpenAI using AGI here is not carrying a whole lot of meaning other than hype)
OpenAI, LinkedIn, Activision Blizzard King, GitHub... many worlds have fallen to the borg.
But what if they are right on AGI - it's here, soon.
If there is going to be a winner in the 'AI race', doesn't society want the company that 'wins' to have values similar to OpenAI's stated values?
OpenAI's competitors (Google, Anthropic, etc) are for-profit organizations, their values are shareholder profits.
Now I'm not arguing OpenAI will perfectly implement their stated goals. I'm sure it'll get messy.
But all things being equal, we know the for-profit guys will accrue profits at the expense of society, and OpenAI has stated the opposite.
Is there anyone else more credible offering better ideas?
Companies' core value is "make money fast and repeatable".
Anything else is just window dressing to get employees to work for you and get customers to buy from you. And as companies hit the top of the sigmoid curve, they will crank every lever to extract smaller amounts of profit, while cannibalizing what made them special (hello enshittification).
This one's is literally "own means of production" uh sorry "own AGI". This is potentially a post-money objective.
You can say a lot of things about sama but he does play high stakes games.
There’s a world where ChatGPT and other GenAI tools are a multi-trillion dollar market, but where they also don’t get anywhere close to AGI, let alone some hyperintelligent machine god. Occam’s razor suggests that’s indeed the world we’re in.
Gwern, Bostrom, Yudkowski et. al. are terrific sci-fi writers, but I’d advise against taking them too seriously.
unfortunately for parent comment, categorizing something as sci-fi doesn't make it so
Can you elaborate?
Parsing them for meaning is nearly as useful as parsing your morning bowel movement to predict your day.
Cynical takes like yours are accurate in the descriptive sense. They are useful for describing and predicting outcomes. Ideals are typically prescriptive. They call us to improve upon what is. The two concepts are not incompatible, but for many they are seemingly contradictory.
People care because they have ideals. Perhaps they confuse the two concepts. Perhaps their expectations are too idealistic.
People have ideals, companies do not. The people employed by those companies have ideals but its beyond foolish to think that those ideals would be prioritized over profit.
Businesses don't have a conscience, people do, but that doesn't mean that the business will do the right thing. Sure, the ideals of the person and the ones the company reports can match up, but it's only through luck and not out of a sense of the greater good.
they couldn't chew through 10B from MSFT that fast?..
- AI investment is drying up
- FOSS AI is competitive with proprietary providers
From what I understand, AI grifting and investing has only just begun, and open source AI tools aren't on par with what Open AI is offering.
That's exactly what "make something people love" means. To love a product means to pay money for it.
If the system had given me a personal chef, I don't need to go to fancy restaurants
"I relish paying my health insurance bill" is a bit different.
It is the benefits that they receive after getting the said product / service.
And some relish is just absence of pain
We need a word for these kind of randian sociopathies.
Maybe you don't owe Sam Altman and what you imagine to be his core value better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.