Or he wants his suppliers to be a regulated utility while he sells 100% margin products on top of it?
Or he wants all the greater fools now wherever they are so he can get out before the collapse?
It feels like this is a case of following the money to understand the real goals, since it's unclear to me that AGI is that goal.
>Or he wants his suppliers to be a regulated utility while he sells 100% margin products on top of it?
Near term yep - soon as regulatory capture drops. They'll make out like bandits.
>Or he wants all the greater fools now wherever they are so he can get out before the collapse?
Then this, by the time competition catches up anyway because there are no real moats here besides regulation
>Wait, he wants his open product to be like a utility with low profits for maximized reach?
Then this is what remains, in a sea of other providers.
Financially? Pump and Dump, baby. Though I reckon the end result will still be intelligence flowing like water.
Ironically, much of the observed behaviour is instrumentally convergent for most of the suggested ultimate goals.
Trying to make a safe and aligned AGI or a statutory government monopoly would both get about half the things we've seen.
The other half is stuff which is collectively mutually exclusive on all goals, but humans aren't perfect logical spheres in a vacuum, so it could still be basically any of them.
at this point, the lofty goals are a distraction from celebrating the utility of what we have, incremental upgrades, and reduced resource usage.
> As the availability of electricity became more widespread, people found better ways of using it.
This is an analogy, not a formula. And a great aspiration for a company that until recently was at the forefront of its industry.
Electricity didn't need the scale sama is asking for thriving as a tech (obviously eventually it did explode in use cases with enough scale, but that's not my point). Scientists used to make electromagnetism experiment demonstrations in Academies with equipment that was not that expensive nor inaccesible for the time. You can even produce enough electricity with a potato to light a bulb.
A better technology for this analogy would be promoting on-device/on-site open SLMs, but that's not what OAI promotes, is it?
> Scientists used to make electromagnetism experiment demonstrations in Academies with equipment that was not that expensive nor inaccesible for the time.
Treat it as a perdonal opinion but I really think the analogy resists no analysis after situations like that. If it is closed (and that's what OAI proposes, they aren't advocating for open models but the contrary), it will never be like electricity.