I don’t know about you, but my takeaway is that the author is doing damage control but inadvertently tipped a hand that OpenAI is probably running an elaborate con job on the DoD.
“Yes, we have a super secret model, for your eyes only, general. This one is definitely not indistinguishable from everyone else’s model and it doesn’t produce bullshit because we pinky promise. So we need $1T.”
I love LLMs, but OpenAI’s marketing tactics are shameful.
I don’t think that was their claim that they knew this.
I think it’s hilarious that apparently few have learned from Theranos or WeWork.
OpenAI is in a precarious position. Anything less than AGI will make them look like a bust. They are backed into a situation where they are heavily incentivized to lie and Theranos their way out of this and hope they can actually deliver something that resembles their pie in the sky predictions.
We are at the point where GPT-5 is starting to look like the iPhone 5.
How do you know this?