Technology

Yea the vision is very unclear to me, at least what they've announced publicly. I've seen people say the goal is achieving AGI but I'm not sure what that even means.

From internal docs leak it seems that the company is totally capitalist brained and it doesn't have a clear definition of AGI either.

According to leaked documents obtained by The Information, the two companies came to agree in 2023 that AGI will be achieved once OpenAI has developed an AI system that can generate at least $100 billion in profits.

https://gizmodo.com/leaked-documents-show-openai-has-a-very-clear-definition-of-agi-2000543339

Again this is also unclear. How is it going to generate profits?

If it's supposed to replace Google search, one avenue I can see is trying to incorporate ads into the LLM answers, which just degrades their product, but I suppose if they hit a mass market then they can create a sort of walled Garden that keeps people on it.

Another way is that it will totally replace workers. I don't think this is possible and is AI idealism.

The other way is you make this a product that increases productivity. In that case you can replace workers because it makes the average worker more productive and then a company can do more with less.

But I'm just speculating, I think any of these can be totally wrong.

I wish that OpenAI and their ilk would die already so I could begin to make sense of the world

Ignoring the incoming climate catastrophe, I think the only way for AI to die is for something else new and shiny to come in that VC's then stop throwing their money into AI buzzword bullshit startup and into that new industry. I think all these VC's think the same way and want the next "internet". It's also why I think so much money was thrown into crypto as even though it was bs, it had a next big thing kinda vibe.

I'm hoping it doesn't even get to that point and we can have some kinda revolution in the west because, fuck, we're all dying so that these assholes can maintain their profits.