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Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Lol no.

They aren't going to extinguish OpenAI, they are going to use their tech for everything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Extinguish isn't about snuffing the tech out, it's about pushing everyone else out of the market after you have extended it in a proprietary fashion and used your market dominance to create a defacto monopoly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That'd only work with proprietary tech.

AI is pure math and that math is freely available. There are already many competitors with similar functionality and there isn't much Microsoft can do to change that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

EEE has been used against open source tools in the past (it's where the extend part comes in), and crushing competition with the full weight of the MS machine is kinda the point. I think you're being too quick to handwave it away, but I'd love to be wrong. In any case, not interested in changing your mind enough to argue with you about it. Have a nice day!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

No, they are going to sell the tech to others, microsoft doesnt know what to do with it. Extinguish doesn't mean the thing no longer exists, it means that the entity openai, and it's mission and what it was created for gets extinguished. And microsofts version of that geared towards shareholder value

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're going to extinguish the ability of others to use it to displace them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That would mean having a monopoly on computation, which is never gonna happen.