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Is this guy Aes Sedai?

Technically he can claim that OpenAI will not release competing products while Microsoft plugs AI into everything.

Microsoft just announced at Build 2023 that they'll have OpenAI tech integrated with: Windows, Bing, Outlook, Word, Teams, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Microsoft Fabric, Dynamics, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Logic Apps. I probably missed a bunch.

Very soon now, everything Microsoft sells will have OpenAI integration.

Unless you're selling a niche product too small for Microsoft to bother with, you're competing directly against OpenAI.

Oh, and to top it off: Microsoft can use GPT 4 all they want, via API access. Third parties have to beg and plead to get rate-limited access. That access can be withdrawn at any time if you're doing something unsafe to OpenAI's profit margins.

"Please Sir Sam, may I have some GPT please?"

"No."




> Is this guy Aes Sedai?

Haha having just finished the Wheel of Time, I'm super tickled by this reference.

It doesn't seem to be too common, only two uses of it on HN in the past year (at least, found by searching for the phrase "Aes Sedai")


It's the only such reference I could think of that others might recognise.

I'm reading the web serial Pact right now, where the main character can lie but it costs him dearly each time: https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/

I also really enjoyed the ending of the Confederation Trilogy by Peter F Hamilton, which revolved around the inability of the Tyrathca race to tell lies.

PS: Just for laughs, I used to practice talking like an Aes Sedai, never telling an outright lie while actively deceiving people. It's an interesting skill to acquire and surprisingly easy. Once you learn how to do it, you'll never see a press conference or a political speech the same way ever again.


I think we have very similar tastes. I haven't read Pact yet, but I'm a huge fan of Worm (I consider it one of my top 5 favorite works of fiction).

I also haven't read Confederation, but I have read a different work for Hamilton (The Commonwealth Saga). I actually thought it was a bit too long, but it's one of the series I think about most often (so many great ideas and characters in it).




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