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I really don't get the employee position. They want to work at Microsoft? Literally the opposite of everything _open_ai claimed to stand for?
What a joke this whole "non-profit" owning "for-profit" structure turned out to be. For profit structure is like a virus and we see again and again it doesn't integrate with other systems.
Altman and Brockman were the founding leadership of the company/organization and many of these employees are "rockstar" researchers. They wanted to be a part of what they were leading — so it makes sense they still would even if it's under Microsoft.
If OpenAI doesn't have stable, rational and deliberative leadership, none of what they claim to stand for matters. The board did an end-run around the chair and summarily fired Altman Friday afternoon without consulting with any other stakeholders beforehand. They still haven't offered a coherent explanation for why they did what they did.
There's no "other stakeholders" tho. It's a non profit board with a profit capped company that they control. The whole goal of the structure was to resist monetary capture and yet here we are
A stakeholder is something different than a stockholder. A stakeholder could be an employee, investor, customer, someone selling equipment to them or even the community they work in.
Basically anyone who’s affected by their actions.
What makes you assume the employees ever cared about whether OpenAI is non-profit or not?
Microsoft is not the pile of shit it used to be. See the past 10 years
Their products sure don't seem to be anything other than steaming piles of shit. Seems like a distinction without a difference.
Do you mean internally? Because in terms of doing exactly what the worst possible thing is for people, they're a giant, steaming, fly ridden pile of shit
Go ahead and explain how they are so incredibly terrible.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638823/microsoft-ethics-society-team-responsible-ai-layoffs
I mean... Here's a start that's not even off the main topic yet.
But I mean... Have you looked at your windows install lately? Open some things and count how many ads or applications are there that you didn't install. Remember that Windows is paid software... And it isn't cheap either.
The EU is making laws to force Microsoft to stop being user hostile FFS... This is brand new news this month... Are you a fanboy or something?
I mean shit... Wikipedia has an article on this specific topic too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
In what way? Their product lineup is the worst it’s ever been expect maybe xbox, especially software like windows and office. Even Xbox is loosing to Sony and Nintendo despite being a decent product.
In the windows 98-7 era I was die hard. It was a pretty good OS. By modern standards, it’s just awful. Mac and Linux for me.
I run Linux basically everywhere as a sysadmin, I'm comfortable on linux... But my main desktop was always Windows (Games mainly). About every year I try to main Linux.. and usually get by a few weeks or maybe a month before I cave. This year... I've swapped over and it's been a long time. I think that windows got so bad at this point that I no longer find the "downfalls" or negatives of linux as worse anymore...
I was in the same boat as you, ended up deciding to give up the mouse and keyboard and went all in on console gaming to give up my PC. So glad I did
I dunno proton has been really good for me. Only game I don't have installed is Siege and CoD... Baldur's gate and all the other ones I had installed prior seem to run just fine now.
Sorry, but I can't. The 7950x3d, and 7900xtx just make games so pretty.
That's why I love my steam deck. Can play any of my PC libraries (Steam, Epic, emulation, etc) with additional games at great prices more often than not. Touchpads are really nice too.
Plus Linux gaming is really catching up to Windows, especially if you aren't huge into competitive multiplayer games with invasive system-level anticheats.
Xbox and Windows are both by Microsoft but they can't even get that right.
I got a free trial for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate that I've been using to play Starfield and a handful of other games on PC. But half the time I go to play it I either get a license error, which usually needs a full PC restart and signing in and out a few times to fix, or it constantly has to sync with the cloud. I can save my game, close it, not even switch off or restart my PC or even close the Xbox app, and later on when I go to play again it has to slowly synchronise my cloud save again. Why?! And if I want to make sure my save can be used on another device, I have to keep the app open for at least 10-15 mins after exiting the game so that the save can sloooowly upload to the cloud. I can upload things to YouTube, Google Drive, etc at 15+ Mbps but Xbox gaming services chugs along at 0.5 Mbps max. It's infuriating.
Honestly, game pass is a pretty good value proposition (lack of game ownership aside), but with the issues I've been having I won't be keeping it after my free time expires. If Steam has been able to handle license verification and cloud saves for years without problems, why can't Microsoft get this shit right? /rant
Sorry, I really needed to vent about this.
They keep bothering me about feedback, and that my trial is going to end in X amount of days. Like.. Yes? I know.. stop bothering me about it.
How so?
Is it a new, revamped pile of shit?