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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#111

What? I don’t understand this at all after all those interviews and openAI profiles. It was always a bit strange that he never had a share nor took salary from OpenAI, but then what about his vision(and dream from childhood)to achieve AGI and all?

I'm pretty sure there'll be another big budget agi company soon...

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#112

What? I don’t understand this at all after all those interviews and openAI profiles. It was always a bit strange that he never had a share nor took salary from OpenAI, but then what about his vision(and dream from childhood)to achieve AGI and all?

I'm pretty sure there'll be another big budget agi company soon

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#113

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 it's a huge coincidence that they get brought up again recently & now this happens what seems like out the blue.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#116
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

His legendary work on first harvesting reddit then going on a European tour to lobby against others doing the same will be thought in business schools for years.

Hope he lands a nice job next. How about head of QA at Tesla?

/s

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#117

> Sam Altman will depart as CEO and leave the board of directors. Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer, will serve as interim CEO, effective immediately. > Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has conf…

yeah, this is about as harsh as corporate press releases get in terms of removing an executive. There has to be some majorly bad news coming out about Altman for them to not give him the standard "we are mutually parting ways"

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#119

I know I won't get a lot of love for this, but Sam is a really good person. I don't know him well, but I've known him since long before OpenAI. He's not perfect, but behind the scenes he's a genuine and upstanding person. I've met lots of wealthy smart people, and he's the only exception. He was the only person I trusted in this situation, and I'm genuinely nervous that he's no longer running OpenAI.

Update: Greg Brockman is also out, which makes me think it's more than just a Sam scandal.
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