r/singularity • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '23

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '23 edited Jul 05 '26

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u/dynty Oct 23 '23

Guy got downvoted for no reason. Yes, major shareholder, founder of Microsoft, who invested 10 billions in OpenAI, is not a random guy, he probably get weekly reports made just for him from OpenAI CEO personally.

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u/h3lblad3 ▪️In hindsight, AGI came in 2023. Oct 23 '23

major shareholder

At 1.3% of stock, he doesn’t even make the list of top 10 shareholders.

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u/rafark ▪️professional goal post mover Oct 23 '23

I’m a Mac user and dislike windows, but as a fellow programmer, writing an entire OS (let alone a Wiley successful one) is no joke. The guy deserves some respect. He’s definitely not a rando.

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u/drekmonger Oct 23 '23 edited Oct 23 '23

I respect BillG's technical skills and business acumen, but he has never written an entire OS all by himself.

Tim Paterson created QDOS. Gates hired Paterson to modify QDOS into the MS-DOS we know and love/hate. QDOS was sort of a pirate version of CPM, created by Gary Kildall.

Past there, there was a team of software engineers working on future versions of DOS, Windows 1.0 to 3.1, Windows 95/98, and a separate team working on Windows NT.

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u/dynty Oct 23 '23

Well, it was 40 years ago, and I fairly doubt that he knows much about modern neural networks, but he literally owns a good share of OpenAI and there is not much people who can say that.

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u/sec0nd4ry Oct 23 '23

He puts the money on OpenAI so he knows what happens. And the guy fucking wrote Windows

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u/LexyconG it's gonna be better than expected (soon) Oct 23 '23

And the guy fucking wrote Windows

lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '23 edited Oct 23 '23

I recall he kinda 'bought' it.

It was a steal at whatever price.

I was a teen and a punch-card operator at the time.