Reminder that Apple hired 30+ engineers from Masimo and stole multiple trade secrets, including their blood-oxygen monitoring tech, leading to a $634 million judgement against them. They also asked President Biden to intervene and pressure the ITC to reverse their ruling.
Not saying OpenAI is innocent here of course, but really no large corporation is. This is just how the game is played.
In the extreme case it may result in OpenAI having to abandon their in-progress consumer hardware products, but honestly that might actually be good for them. I really can't see all that investment being worthwhile. Better for them to stick to their core competency.
More realistically - OpenAI will cooperate, the specific employees involved will be punished, there will be a settlement, and this whole matter will be forgotten.
There's really no way to prevent an employee from taking a piece of paper or a digital file from one place to another. The most you can prevent is accidental transfer. If they are malicious they will find a way no matter what guardrails you put.
Um, no. Why would it be their responsibility? There are laws regarding IP theft. If you willingly break them you can't just say "well your security wasn't good enough".
Intelligence is domain-specific. People who have put too many skill points in technical knowledge often have none left for common sense and street-smarts.
> Separate question, separate table. This is our standard latency harness (three short prompts, five reps, 400-token cap), not the build tasks. tok/s is output tokens over wall-clock, uniform for all.
> so their tok/s is a ceiling, not a true decode rate. The clear read: the GPT-5.6 tiers are the snappiest models here on short prompts (Luna answers in about a second), Qwen is absurdly cheap and fast, and DeepSeek and GLM are the slowpokes
You put in a lot of good work, and kudos for that, but man, reading paragraphs like these just puts me off of the entire piece.
Like…how hard would it have been really to type these two sentences by hand, in your own natural voice?
> AI is making this all so much worse. When you are prompting you feel like you are steering, but are you really? Would you know if you weren’t?
This one hits hard. I feel more and more that AI-assisted creation is really just consumption. And it’s worse because it gives a false sense of creativity. Are we really expressing ourselves and challenging ourselves by pressing a button and generating the same slop as a million other people?
Hires like these are made for their brand rather than expertise. His job will be to attend galas, schmooze with investors and give legitimacy to the operation. The company will hire others to do the real work.
Facebook was a networking site for a handful of college campuses at the time. It had some great traction, sure, but I doubt "filthy rich" was a serious expectation among employees.
If that was the case then he wouldn't have continued doubling and tripling down on these same product decisions for many more years.
Ask anyone at Meta and they will readily agree that Boz is among the most incompetent and unserious leaders in tech. His only qualification is being Zuck's friend, and that shields him from all criticism. At a more "focused" company he would have been fired a decade ago. As it stands he lost the shareholders $150B+ (and counting), dipped from the metaverse org, and got rewarded with a new role overseeing the shiny new thing - AI.
Takes some extraordinary lack of self awareness to write something like this while burning tens of billions of dollars a year spearheading the "Metaverse", which is as big a digression from the company's core competency as you could possibly get. And soon after publishing this he would go on to lay off a large chunk of the team and more than 20,000 employees total.
Pretty funny that he wrote this in 2023 while spearheading one of the most "unfocused" and disastrous projects in tech history (the Metaverse). Should have taken his own advice.
Not saying OpenAI is innocent here of course, but really no large corporation is. This is just how the game is played.