alt Hacker NewsYeah, I think you can't just throw money randomly at problems and expect results unless you know a line of attack that can get you all the way. OpenAI chose the line of attack only after it became known to them via rumors. They "front-ran" the researchers.
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dcre • today at 12:42 PM
Worth noting they claim they did not choose the line of attack. Of course we don’t know whether that is true.
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Yes. What the headlines hailed as an AGI discovery the facts show more to be someone spending years mining for gold, rumor gets to OpenAI that there might be gold in this specific place, they mine there and instantly discover gold, then tell the world they’ve developed the worlds best gold finding/mining machine.
Separate from all the allegations of more nefarious actions and ethical issues, that’s the most charitable version of what happened here.