wait so what happened? like what'd be screw up?
OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
#202I would translate "not consistently candid with the board" as "he lied to the board about something important enough to fire him on the spot". This seems like the kind of statement lawyers would advise you to not make publicly unless you have proof, and it seems unusual compared to most statements of that kind that are intentionally devoid of any information or blame.
I wonder if the cost of running GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models at scale turned out to have been astoundingly more expensive than anticipated.
Imagine if you were the CTO of a company, massively underestimated your AWS bill, and presented your board with something enormous. Maybe something like that happened?
Or, if I wanted to speculate to the extremely negative; what if the training and operating costs ballooned to such a degree, that the deal with Microsoft was an attempt to plug the cash hole without having to go to the board requesting an enormous loan? Because the fact that Copilot (edit: previously known as Bing Chat and Bing Image Creator) is free and ChatGPT (edit: and DALL-E 3) are not should be a red flag...
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#203There were a bunch of flags popping up recently around Microsoft, including this: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/09/microsoft-restricts-employee...
And possibly related the pause of ChatGPT Plus sign-ups due to capacity problemns (which is all Azure afaik).
Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
#204I would translate "not consistently candid with the board" as "he lied to the board about something important enough to fire him on the spot". This seems like the kind of statement lawyers would advise you to not make publicly unless you have proof, and it seems unusual compared to most statements of that kind that are intentionally devoid of any information or blame.
Hoarding tech and assets for his own ventures, expecting more to come from SAlty.
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#205My theory as a pure AGI researcher-- it's because of the AGI lies OpenAI was built on, largely due to Sam. On one hand, OpenAI is completely (financially) premised on the belief that AGI will change everything, 100x return, etc. but then why did they give up so much control/equity to Microsoft for their money? Sam finally recently admitted that for OpenAI to achieve AGI they "need another breakthrough," so my guess i…
Making incorrect predictions about the future of AGI is not a "lie." It's certainly not something that gets the CEO of one of the hottest and fastest growing companies in the tech industry fired. Also, OpenAI is not financially premised on AGI either. They have an extremely successful product that they can, and do, charge money for.
Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
#206Seems like he’s been freed to focus on something else.
This board member has been making dubious statements in public - gross lies about what openai and ai can do - misleading millions of people. He led a campaign of promoting the company’s product centred on FOMO, FUD, spam and other dark patterns.
Good riddance.
Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
#207My theory as a pure AGI researcher-- it's because of the AGI lies OpenAI was built on, largely due to Sam. On one hand, OpenAI is completely (financially) premised on the belief that AGI will change everything, 100x return, etc. but then why did they give up so much control/equity to Microsoft for their money? Sam finally recently admitted that for OpenAI to achieve AGI they "need another breakthrough," so my guess i…
You could easily take the opposite conclusion and say the "needs another breakthrough" was him breaking kayfabe which cost him his job.
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#209I have a strong gut feeling they're about to mess things up.
I am almost certain they already did. This is pretty bad!
Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
#210Saying this is sudden would be an understatement. Sam Altman spoke at an APEC panel on behalf of OpenAI literally yesterday: https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1725318771454456208
Here is the video of him talking at yesterday's summit.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFFvqRemDv8
It doesn't looks like he has a hint about this:
> I am super excited. I can't imagine anything more exciting to work on.