山姆·奥特曼，不受真相约束
阅读原文· garymarcus.substack.com《纽约客》最新调查报道证实了对OpenAI首席执行官山姆·奥特曼的既有质疑。报道指出其在公共言论中缺乏对事实的约束，存在夸大或误导性陈述。这一调查为此前关于奥特曼诚信问题的担忧提供了佐证，揭示了这位AI行业领军人物在承诺与事实之间的偏差，反映出其言行中真实性约束的缺失。
A central subtheme of this newletter, brought together in this 2024 Guardian article, has been that Sam Altman should not be trusted:
Strong reporting in The New Yorker by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz makes the case significantly more strongly.
I will let you read the details, of which there are many, for yourself, but here’s a nice summary of Altman that rings true to me:
Read it here.
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As a postscript, another thing I have noted about Altman is that when he is in trouble, he often tries to change the narrative with hype,
Right now he is in trouble. People are increasingly concerned about the economics of his company, and in big scoop The Information just reported that the even CFO has concerns:
Today’s new OpenAI report on Superintelligence (allegedly a New Deal for the AI era) isn’t about something real or imminent (as far as I can tell), instead I suspect that it’s just another Altmanian attempt to distract, in this case from the fact that the economics of his company make no sense.