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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#243
I would guess Altman has scores of companies wanting to hire him, no matter what happened.

How do you find the next CEO? Are there good people to pick from internally? Altman was a public face for the company. Replacing him will be difficult.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#247
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For a company that's executing so well (at least from an outside perspective), shipping so fast, growing so fast, and so ahead of the curve in arguably the hottest segment of the tech market, at this moment, to do this right now, means this must be REALLY bad.

The board in question is the non-profit board.

If Sam was pursuing profits or growth (even doing a really good job of it) in a way that violated the objectives set by the non-profit board, that could set up this kind of situation.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#248
It was obvious Sam was a creep and anyone not in the tech world said he weirded them out when they saw him in interviews. If you impose that kind of guy feeling on people, it's for a reason.

Edit: I didn't even know he molested his sister when I wrote my post: https://twitter.com/phuckfilosophy/status/163570439893983232...

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#249
So, to summarize the speculations:

  That the board is unhappy with his for profit and moat building charted path. 

  That this is about his sister.

  That he pissed off microsoft.

  That he did something illegal, financially.

  That he has been lying about costs/profit.

  That he lied about copyrighted training data.
I will add: maybe he's not aggressive enough in pursuit of profit.
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