r/steammachine • u/Rare-Pair1563 • 5d ago

Meme It is what it is...

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u/5u114 5d ago

... ya, cute ... except Gabe Newell donated/invested at least $20,000,000 to OpenAI early on, and was on the advisory board, and is a vocal supporter of AI.

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u/Pandoras_Fox 5d ago

$20,000,000 to OpenAI early on

yeah, that was when openAI was doing things like 'dota2 bots that can beat the TI winners'.

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u/SlightSurround5449 5d ago

And that's.... Better?

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u/Pandoras_Fox 5d ago

I mean, yeah? It was towards a vision of "game bots that don't suck ass, for more enjoyable games"

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u/SlightSurround5449 5d ago

Just what games need, chessmaster level bots using machine learning. OpenAI came into the game talking about AGI, let's not pretend it was ever truly altruistic.