[ethbr1]

If Altman will be 1 of 9, that means he has power but not an exceptional amount.

The real teams here seem to be:

"Team Board That Does Whatever Altman Wants"

"Team Board Provides Independent Oversight"

With this much money on the table, independent oversight is difficult, but at least they're making the effort.

The idea this was immediately about AI safety vs go-fast (or Microsoft vs non-Microsoft control) is bullshit -- this was about how strong board oversight of Altman should be in the future.

[irthomasthomas]

Is not Microsoft a decelerationist force? Copilot is still lingers on GPT3.5, and they need to figure out how to sell Office licenses to AGI.

[plorg]

This seems like a silly way of understanding deceleration. By this comparison the USSR was decelerating the cold war because they were a couple years behind in developing the hydrogen bomb.

Microsoft can and will be using GPT4 as soon as they get a handle on it, and if it doesn't boil their servers to do so. If you want deceleration you would need someone with an incentive that didn't involve, for example, being first to market with new flashy products.

[rvnx]

Microsoft was using GPT-4 in production as part of Sydney's "Bing Chat", even before it was released to the public on ChatGPT.