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The fresh information was seeing who built an AGI, and what it looks like.

When OpenAI was founded it was expected that AGI would likely come out of Google, with OpenAI doing the world a favor by replicating this wonderful technology and giving it to the masses. One might have imagined AGI would be some Spock-like stone cold super intelligence.

As it turns out, OpenAI themselves were the first to create something AGI-like, so the role they envisaged for themselves was totally flipped. Not only this, but this AGI wasn't an engineered intelligence but rather a stochastic parrot, trained on the internet, and incredibly toxic; as much of a liability as a powerful tool.

OpenAIs founding mission of AI democracy has turned into one of protecting us from this bullshitting psychopath that they themselves created, while at the same time raising the billions of dollars it takes to iterate on something so dumb it needs to be retrained from scratch every time you want to update it.



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