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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by magicloop »

jborden13 wrote: post #6

> 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…

Well, striking language indeed.

But.. what are the responsibilities of the board that may be hindered? I studied https://openai.com/our-structure

One tantalising statement in there is that AGI-level system is not bound by licensing agreements that a sub-AGI system would be (ostensibly to Microsoft).

This phase-shift places a pressure on management to not declare reaching a AGI level threshold. But have they?

Of course, it could be an ordinary everyday scandal but given how well they are doing, I'd imagine censure/sanctions would be how that is handled.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by superfrank »

I can't wait for the revel that GPT-4 is just a chat application connecting you to a the worlds biggest center in India.

Joking aside, this feels massive. Both that it happened so suddenly and that the announcement doesn't mince words. The fact that the CTO is now CEO makes me think it's probably not a lie about their tech. It wouldn't make sense to say "we've been lying about our capabilities" and then appoint the current CTO as CEO.

This makes me think it's either financial or a scandal around Sam himself.

I can't wait to hear more

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by cubefox »

paxys wrote: post #96

9 out of 10 times when something like this happens there's a sex scandal involved.

His sister claimed a while ago that he abused her when he was 13. However, she also claims other implausible things, and she isn't very mentally stable.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QDczBduZorG4dxZiW/sam-altman...

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by nebula8804 »

gkoberger wrote: post #27

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.

He is the guy that built a bunker in New Zealand and has a ready made plan to escape on a motorcycle with his escape bag filled with guns, money and supplies when things collapse right? (At least I think he that guy) Is that normal person behavior?
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