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Valve CEO Gabe Newell was an enthusiastic supporter of OpenAI in 2018, donating $20 million and even acting as the sole member of an "informal advisory board" (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] chrash0@lemmy.world 82 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

i don’t think people in this forum would disagree with this move in 2018, as much as sentiments have changed. if you remove the political context and market moves from the equation, it is truly fascinating how these models work. GPT 2 was a crazy leap forward for language modeling, and the idea that a language model would be threatening middle class jobs wasn’t even on the table at that point. the idea that a pile of floating point numbers could write a React app is incredible, if politically fraught.

also, it wasn’t clear back then what OpenAI would become. they were a non-profit, and as clear as our hindsight is today this was before ChatGPT or any customer facing products were coming out of OpenAI.

i can’t be the only nerd in the room that has been fascinated by AI since i was a child only to face a reality where it’s not what i imagined it would be.

[–] onoki@reddthat.com 24 points 6 hours ago

Back then OpenAI also heavily used/developed/showcased the AI technology for DOTA 2 (Valve's game) bots, at level which was spectacular at the time. It makes only sense that the front face of a company shows interest in the (non-profit at the time) product of their partner organisation.