• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    the OpenAI board was in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO, just a day after he was ousted.

    He must be laughing so hard now… :-)

    • mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      That hasn’t been confirmed at all. No one from the board has commented even anonymously as far as I’ve seen. This is a play by Altman and his supporters to try and influence public opinion and make the board seem incompetent.

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        Maybe. Allegedly MS is throwing their weight around to try to force it, which does seem plausible.

        Though I hope the board stands firm.

        Ilya is much more valuable long term to the company than Altman, and frankly the latter leaving is the first time in about a year I’ve been bullish about OpenAI’s prospects.

        They really walked their core product back in the past few months despite expanding their productization of it towards low hanging short-term fruit.

        Ilya’s vision is spot on with where transformers are headed as complexity increases, and is one of the only scientists I’ve seen that really sees that horizon.

        If Altman was standing in the way of getting there, it’s better that he’s gone.

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          I agree with you overall though I will say that MS throwing their weight around is really just a lot of hot air at the end of the day. They don’t have a board seat and they were told from the start that their invest should be seen as more of an investment. The non-profit is in control and MS can’t change that.

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        Maybe, but then it’s a genius move, and he can still laugh at them.

        All the world was quite busy with learning the name ‘OpenAI’ during the last months. But OpenAI is history.

        The world is learning the name ‘Sam Altman’ now.

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          SMH do we really have to do this god-emperor thing with every single dude who gets a little bit of fame in the business world

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          This made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

          Didn’t you fan boys learn after Elon? Altman is not something I’d recommend idolizing. From his crypto BS, to his preper stuff (saying he will survive in the apocalypse… sure), to the stuff his sister is saying he did to her, to his general doucheyness, to his attempts at regulatory capture…

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          Curious why the down votes? I think it’s fair to say this news has been pretty remarkable and has even made it on the news stations. I think a lot of people are probably learning his name right now and makes him seem ‘valuable’ if the board asks him to come back.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    To add to the confusion over the future of one of the world’s most potentially valuable technology firms, a report by the Verge on Saturday night claimed that the OpenAI board was in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO, just a day after he was ousted.

    OpenAI staff were later told by the chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, in an internal company memo his sacking was over a “breakdown in communication between Sam and the board”, and not “malfeasance or anything related to our financial, business, safety, or security/privacy practices”.

    Last year, it launched ChatGPT, a text-based AI-powered tool that allows users to enter prompts and receive human-like responses and is now used by millions.

    Earlier in November, he was one of 100 delegates who travelled to Bletchley Park for the UK’s AI summit, where he met Rishi Sunak.

    This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the non-profit, which is to make sure that OpenAI builds AGI [artificial general intelligence] that benefits all of humanity,” he said, according to The Information.

    The changes at OpenAI have shocked the wider sector, with one investment advisory firm describing them as an “earthquake”, a “soap opera” and a “Netflix documentary in the making”.


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