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[Yuli Ban]

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[wjfox]

Microsoft to Own 49% of OpenAI Once $10B Deal Closes

January 10, 2023

Reports have surfaced that Microsoft Corp. is in advanced negotiations to make a massive investment in OpenAI, the company behind the revolutionary ChatGPT chatbot. Insiders reveal that the deal could see Microsoft pumping in a whopping $10 billion, which would value OpenAI at an impressive $29 billion.

This means that the non-profit OpenAI Inc. could own a measly 2% while 49% will remain for other investors as Microsoft eats up the lion’s share.

This potential investment has far-reaching implications for the future of OpenAI and the broader AI sector. The decision to make Microsoft the majority shareholder could potentially change OpenAI’s initial goals of being open and accessible to the public, its namesake. It could also raise questions about the future direction and priorities of the organization and its products.

https://metaroids.com/news/microsoft-to ... al-closes/

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Until now I thought OpenAI and DeepMind were the same company lol.

[Ozzie guy]

Microsoft to Own 49% of OpenAI Once $10B Deal Closes

January 10, 2023

Reports have surfaced that Microsoft Corp. is in advanced negotiations to make a massive investment in OpenAI, the company behind the revolutionary ChatGPT chatbot. Insiders reveal that the deal could see Microsoft pumping in a whopping $10 billion, which would value OpenAI at an impressive $29 billion.

This means that the non-profit OpenAI Inc. could own a measly 2% while 49% will remain for other investors as Microsoft eats up the lion’s share.

This potential investment has far-reaching implications for the future of OpenAI and the broader AI sector. The decision to make Microsoft the majority shareholder could potentially change OpenAI’s initial goals of being open and accessible to the public, its namesake. It could also raise questions about the future direction and priorities of the organization and its products.

https://metaroids.com/news/microsoft-to ... al-closes/

It's very sad that I have to place my hopes of a positive singularity onto a company that has no doubt caused the death of many in the third world and gets super profits by extracting value from sweatshops.

[wjfox]

[Ozzie guy]

"Once $92 billion in profit plus $13 billion in initial investment are repaid (to Microsoft) and once the other venture investors earn $150 billion, all of the equity reverts back to OpenAI."

Just yesterday I was commenting about how I see Microsoft taking over as reduced safety. This deal could of course be owners of OpenAI seeking more profits for themselves, but I like to think it is a sign they want AI to be safe and hence want full control over it.

[wjfox]

[raklian]

Look at the number of synapses Killer whales have!

[wjfox]

We both posted at the same time!

[raklian]

We both posted at the same time!

[spryfusion]

[wjfox]

[agi]

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[Ozzie guy]

"Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic"

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt ... reddit.com

These are the people deciding morals of AI

Personally there is no point to me becoming a luddite, AI will come before any kind of cultural change I want. "The end is near".tm will we overtime get Heaven or Hell that is the question.

[wjfox]

[raklian]

[wjfox]

[Miky617]

I wonder what the false positive rate will be for this kind of "ChatGPT detection" algorithm. It may be able to consistently identify responses made by ChatGPT, but how often will it pick out someone's own writing and identify that as ChatGPT output? Especially in the kind of sterile and couched language I see in my work email circles, a lot of what I see looks similar to how ChatGPT writes (or rather, the other way around). For people who naturally write in a similar style, would they get improperly flagged?

Though I'll admit I don't know much about these programs or the in's and out's of how this detection system will work so it might not be a legitimate concern at all.

[Edit] It looks like the watermark will be on the output side, built into ChatGPT, so my concern doesn't apply to the quoted tweet. Instead, I should direct my concern to the detection bots like the ones mentioned elsewhere like a "plagiarism detector".