After dissecting the minutiae from the ongoing battle of the bozos ⊕ [Note: To save you a click: it is about the Musk-Altman trial. ] , Andrew Sharp’s weekly column ends with this paragraph: The reality is knottier. Had the OpenAI founders not launched with a nonprofit structure in 2015, they probably never recruit the talent required to compete with Google. And had they done anything else other than exactly what they did in 2018 and 2019, all of computing would be less interesting today, and the company probably wouldn’t exist eight years later. Musk’s trial has been clarifying on that point, at least for me. The AI side of technology is one of those rare occasions where biotech may indeed be like tech: people with knowledge, skills and ambition to make the early steps towards creating something new generally don’t do it for the money. Accolades, titles, a few more increments on their h-indices sure, but unless they are seriously delusional a lab postdoc coming in on a weekend to…
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