OpenAI version of events conceed some of the words alleged to have been used may have been used
https://x.com/sama/status/2097385167002415140 https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/2097379411691516310
reply> "When we learned that they had Euler but not Navier-Stokes, we offered to let them go first, to suggest that they should be the ones to get the prize, and optionally for Tristan to be the lead author on a rewrite of the OpenAI proof. We felt it was challenging to offer the same to Levent (an Anthropic employee), who was not willing to talk or coordinate with us anyway. We were open to other solutions."
replyWhat an admission! "We tried to defraud Alpöge out of sharing the Millenium Prize (that we don't dispute he might actually deserve), for no other reason than he works for our competitor and that inconveniences us".
I thought Tristan Buckmaster's allegations sounded fantastic; and then 'sama just came out (tweet's ~30 minutes old) and admitted to all of them. Wow!
That isn't what the quoted passage says though? The claim by openai (no idea if true) is that they offered to wait for the other two to claim the prize before publishing their own work. Separately, they also offered to let one of the pair (but not the other) become an author on their own separate work.
replyCan't wait for the moment when AGI realizes how stupid and dishonest its owners are.
replyWait, people now want AGI to be sentient too?
replyInteresting that they quote the mathematician directly: “there is nothing you can do, I simply do not trust you”
replybut then they proceed to NOT quote themselves themselves verbatim: "I deeply apologize for this extremely poor choice of words, it is the opposite of what I was trying to convey."
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reply> "I deeply apologize for this extremely poor choice of words, it is the opposite of what I was trying to convey."
replyThe AI-isms are seeping into their speech :)
May be unfairly jaded or just well calibrated given the body of evidence, but I can't help but think of another quote about OpenAI leadership:
reply> Not consistently candid
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replyIn what world a tweet and a screenshot of a private convo are evidence of good faith? Plain sociopathic behavior.
replyTalking like that and threatening an academic like that is crazy. I read the explanations Altman and the others posted and they completely skip over the whole "I don't have to be nice" style threats.
replyAs soon as I thought "man, this sounds like some evil sociopath shit," my second thought was "oh, Sam Altman must have been personally involved."
replyI can sort of picture Sam Altman screaming "I drink your milkshake" at some poor researcher who foolishly used chatgpt/codex to aid in their work now.
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