We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission. openai.com/blog/openai-lp/
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We will need to raise billions of dollars. If we do not, the Nonprofit would fail at its mission. We then needed a structure that let us custom-write (very unusual!) rules like the following: - Fiduciary duty to the charter - Cap returns - Full control to OpenAI Nonprofit
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Are you that far down the road towards AGI that investing billions today makes sense?
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Replying to @gwern @davidiach @OpenAI
Per our Charter (openai.com/charter/) our primary means of accomplishing the mission is to build safe AGI directly. As you say it's going to take a lot of compute! (Interestingly, our safety research looks similar in profile to other ML research and is also scaling fast.)

Mar 11, 2019 · 6:48 PM UTC

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Replying to @gdb @gwern @davidiach @OpenAI
Pathetic mission to accelerate AGI in the name of “safe AI”. Disgusting
Replying to @gdb @gwern @davidiach @OpenAI
Isnt that one of the problems with our current approaches to AI...that we are willing to use up giant amounts of compute/power to get there. Moores law is ending and wont save the serious scaling issues that lies ahead.
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Replying to @gdb @davidiach @OpenAI
One way I might express their plan @gwern is by replacing “AI safety” with “AGI alignment” and then their plan is to “build aligned AGI”. Even aside from stated mission, building eg a Paul-style IDA system might require the thing to be really quite powerful to work at all.
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