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Assertion Supported
Altman: OpenAI's board can wipe equity to zero for safety
“We also have something in our documents which says if we need to for safety, the board can just totally wipe out everyone's equity value to nothing.”
Sam Altman Sep 29, 2022 ▶ 32:39 HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
Assertion Supported
OpenAI realized Google's Transformer architecture scaled far better than anyone appreciated
“Another company, OpenAI, latched onto the idea that this is, in fact, extremely scalable, more scalable than anybody had appreciated. And they just basically scaled it up and scaled it up and scaled it up.”
Shane Legg Apr 11, 2024 ▶ 18:23 AI is smarter than you think with Shane Legg of Google DeepMind
Assertion Supported
Altman: OpenAI charter permits shutting down to merge with leading rivals
“And we have something called the merge and assist clause, which says, similar to that, if another effort's ahead, and we want to avoid a race condition we can just shut down and merge with some other effort.”
Sam Altman Sep 29, 2022 ▶ 32:46 HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
Assertion Partly supported
OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind Were Founded Expressly to Create AGI
“Remember that the stated mission statement of OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind from the very beginning, those three companies, Have been to create artificial general intelligence.”
Tristan Harris Feb 22, 2024 ▶ 20:08 The peril (and promise) of AI with Tristan Harris: Part 1
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