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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: 0s | 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. roughly ◴[18 Oct 24 16:53 UTC] No.41881215[source]▶
Which is funny, because what they’ve created so far can write shitty poetry but is basically useless for any kind of detail-oriented work - so, you know, a bachelors in communications, which isn’t really the definition of “economically viable”