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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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I 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.

Yes, it is going to be Very Bad. There isn't even a pretence that this is anything other than a firing for-cause.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#282
Just a fantasy my mind goes to:

The Pentagon calls up Sam Altman and offers a very lucrative contract for an AI to oversee a fleet of networked drones that can also function semi-autonomously. Sam Altman does not tell the board.

Reality might, of course, be very different.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#285

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.

Ilya Sutskever is the AI prodigy, not Sam. And he is one of the board members that presumably voted to fire Altman.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Pure speculation and just trying to connect dots... I wonder if they realized they are losing a lot of money on ChatGPT Plus subscriptions. Sam tweeted about pausing sign-ups just a few days ago: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1724626002595471740 Lots more signups recently + OpenAI losing $X for each user = Accelerating losses the board wasn't aware of ?

Not something you would fire someone on the spot over. This firing is spooking investors and costing them (and partners like MSFT) money
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