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Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying

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321 points jhunter1016 | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 11:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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twoodfin ◴[18 Oct 24 12:08 UTC] No.41878632[source]▶
Stay for the end and the hilarious idea that OpenAI’s board could declare one day that they’ve created AGI simply to weasel out of their contract with Microsoft.
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fragmede ◴[18 Oct 24 16:01 UTC] No.41880653[source]▶
The question is how rigorously defined is AGI in their contract? Given how much AGI is a nebulous concept of smartness and reasoning ability and thinking, how are they going to declare when it has or hasn't been achieved. What stops Microsoft from weaseling out of the contract by saying they never reach it.
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JacobThreeThree ◴[18 Oct 24 16:21 UTC] No.41880868[source]▶
OpenAI's short definition of AGI is:

A highly autonomous system that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.

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1. squarefoot ◴[18 Oct 24 16:52 UTC] No.41881206[source]▶
Some of those works would need a tight integration of AI and top notch robotic hardware, and would be next to impossible today at acceptable price. Folding shirts comes to mind; The principle would be dead simple for an AI, but the robot that could do that would cost a lot more than a person paid to do that, especially if one expects it to also be non specialized, thus usable for other tasks.