A lot of people confuse access to information with being smart. Because for humans it correlates well - usually the smart people are those that know a lot of facts and can easily manipulate them on demand, and the dumb people are those that can not. LLMs have unique capability of being both very knowledgeable (as in, able to easily access vast quantities of information, way beyond the capabilities of any human, PhD or not) and very dumb, they way a kindergarten kid wouldn't be. It totally confuses all our heuristics.

The most reasonable assumption is that the CEO is using dishonest rhetoric to upsell the LLM, instead of taking your approach and assuming the CEO is confused about the LLM's capability.

There are savvy people who know when to say "don't tell me that information" because then it is never a lie, simply "I was not aware"

There must be smart people at openai who believe in what they're doing and absolutely cringe whenever this clown opens his mouth... like, I hope?

They believe in waiting for their stock to vest, just as anyone else in their uniquely fortunate position would.

I mean if I were promised a "never-have-to-work-ever-again" amount of money in exchange for doing what I'd love to do anyway, and which I think is a working thing, and tolerating the CEO publicly proclaiming some exaggerated bullshit about it (when nobody asks my opinion of it anyway), I'd probably take it.

What good is OpenAI stock? Is anyone buying it?

I mean vested stock doesn't necessarily need to go up in value. In some places the stock comp is higher than the actual pay, so even if you sell on the day of vesting you're doubling your income. So the investment viability of stock comp doesn't matter too much, it only matters how much of it you receive.

well since openai is private probably the employees are getting stock options not RSUs--which, since it's private, might be hard to sell even if they do exercise them..