David Rosenthal: belief

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…Free of the forces of Facebook and Google and independent of their control. You don’t have to work on products, you can only work on research. You can publish your work. It will be open, it will be for the good of humanity. All of these incredible advances, this intelligence that we believe is to come will be for the good of everyone, not just for Google and Facebook. And for one of the researchers, it seemed too good to be true. They basically weren’t doing it because they didn’t think anyone else would do it. It’s an activation energy problem. By the way, Google came back with a big counter, something like double the offer. I think it was delivered from Jeff Dean personally. Ilya said, nope, I’m doing this. That was massive for getting the rest of the top researchers to go with him.…

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