PANews reported on November 25 that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in an interview with Tencent News' "Periscope" that OpenAI has now become CloseAI. Today, another problem has emerged: first, they sacrificed their open source for security; then this year, they sacrificed their security for profit. Last year, there was a conflict between the company and the board of directors, and after the conflict, it seems that Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) won. Recently, they announced that they will change from a non-profit to a for-profit company, and reduce the power of the board of directors to the level of advisors. This makes me quite concerned. It reminds me of a quote from an American founding father: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." You can see that this is what happened to OpenAI.
In addition, regarding the cryptocurrency field, Vitalik said that one of the problems in the cryptocurrency field in the past 5 years is that people's dreams and hopes are very high, but the technology cannot achieve most of the dreams. As for how Crypto can save the world, the first possibility is Crypto + Decentralized AI; the second possibility is Crypto + a technology that can replace AI. To a certain extent, the prosperity of artificial intelligence in the past two years may lead to a cooling of Crypto. I have a concern: if especially intelligent people do not do Crypto, the people left in the Crypto field may not have any interesting ideas, and the only application is the financial application that has been done for many years. This will become a situation - issue a coin, create an exchange; issue another coin, create another exchange; issue another coin with a cute dog - these things are fun, but if they are the only things our industry does, then this industry is a failure. The challenge facing our industry is to create an application that is both meaningful and has many people participating. However, the power of Crypto has increased a lot this year, and more and more developers are starting to want to create applications that are both meaningful and have many users participating. If the Crypto field continues to succeed, many people will still choose to participate in Crypto.
