(sorry, I think openai and sam are gross)
I see this sort of thing posted a lot (i.e., “it should be ClosedAI instead of OpenAI, lol”)
What if it just means “Open for Business” instead of “Open Access for All”? Or maybe they should just make it an acronym?
I’m sorry for the confusion on my part, but there’s just been a lot of words dedicated toward expressing frustration with the company because they chose to use “open” in their name.
Personally, I don’t find it frustrating that Apple doesn’t sell fruit and Intel doesn’t actually give intelligence data.
This doesn’t seem to be compatible with continuing loftily call themselves with the same name, as the initial nonprofit mission.
As in prepare for the end... THE END OF HIGH PRICES!
> to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai
« We’re hoping to grow OpenAI into such an institution. As a non-profit, our aim is to build value for everyone rather than shareholders. Researchers will be strongly encouraged to publish their work, whether as papers, blog posts, or code, and our patents (if any) will be shared with the world. We’ll freely collaborate with others across many institutions and expect to work with companies to research and deploy new technologies. »
They never give an explicit explanation for their name, but it's pretty obvious.