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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#71

>Search process underway to identify permanent successor. Put me in, coach. As someone deeply entrenched in the realms of AI development and ethical considerations, boasting a robust leadership background, I stand poised to lead OpenAI into its next phase of innovation and ethical advancement. My tenure navigating the intersection of AI research, business acumen, and ethical frameworks provides a unique foundation. H…

nice try, but your username betrays your dastardly ambitions.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#72
I don't know how to feel about this. On the one hand, Sam seemed like a voice of reason who at least cared about AI being safe, and was committed to creating semi-equitable products, innovate on safety at the sake of profit, etc. On the other hand, Worldcoin wasn't (and isn't) really a force of good.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#75

There were some sexual allegations popping out against him from his own sister, that he had SUPPOSEDLY abused her when they were kids or something. Again allegations are not proof! But I do wonder if they found anything more tangible on the record...

Yeah, I wondered if that might have something to do with it, though afaik those allegations were made in 2021.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#76
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Who were on OpenAI's board? "OpenAI is governed by the board of the OpenAI Nonprofit, comprised of OpenAI Global, LLC employees Greg Brockman (Chairman & President), Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist), and Sam Altman (CEO), and non-employees Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner." [1] [1] https://openai.com/our-structure

Who the heck is Tasha McCauley?

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#79

def some sort of scandal. The prodigy Altman is booted after creating potentially the most successful company of all time and replaced by CTO who had no prior ML/AI experience becomes CEO. Wow.

Sam Altman isn't the brains in OpenAI, it is the research scientists and engineers. Just take care of the rest of the company and let these geniuses do what they do, thats the role for the ceo.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#80
It's amazing how someone who led the company to such an exalted status, with such a definite plan for world-changing success, is ousted so unceremoniously. Is it really just a matter of a "lack of being consistently candid?". Is something happening behind the scenes we're not aware of?
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