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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
#472I think it could simply be a matter of vision. Sam just recently sounded more cautious and calculated than ever, possibly scaling down the expectations from the current state of his company's AI [1]. That might not have played well with the board, based potentially on his previous messaging to them. [1] https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1725300091450519927
That doesn't justify a sudden firing and describing him as not candid.
Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
#473- Cant be a personal scandal, press release would be worded much more differently - Board is mostly independent and those independent dont have equity - They talk about not being candid - this is legalese for “lying” The only major thing that could warrant something like this is Sam going behind the boards back to make a decision (or make progress on a decision) that is misaligned with the Charter. Thats the only fir…
Tbh surprised some of the personal stuff hasn't come to light. Nothing horrendous, but enough to push him out of any CEO role.
Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
#474Put the pieces together: Nov 6 - OpenAI devday, with new features of build-your-own ChatGPT and more Nov 9 - Microsoft cuts employees off from ChatGPT due to "security concerns" [0] Nov 9 - OpenAI experiences severe downtime the company attributes to a "DDoS" (not the correct term for 'excess usage') [3] Nov 15 - OpenAI announce no new ChatGPT plus upgrades [1] but still allow regular signups (and still do) Nov 17 -…
I love that HN can help contextualize things like this and leave it open to consideration and not presenting it as fact.
Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
#475For me, this stood out in the announcement: > In a statement, the board of directors said: “OpenAI was deliberately structured to advance our mission: to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all humanity. The board remains fully committed to serving this mission. Why would they include that? Maybe its just filler, but if not then it is possible that there has been more than a simple disagreement about…
Or Sam was the driving force behind increasingly closed research and that went against the board's commitment to "benefit all humanity"?
Maybe the closed GPT-4 details were promised by him to be a one time temporary thing at the time and then he has been continuing to stonewall releasing details later on?
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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
#477- Cant be a personal scandal, press release would be worded much more differently - Board is mostly independent and those independent dont have equity - They talk about not being candid - this is legalese for “lying” The only major thing that could warrant something like this is Sam going behind the boards back to make a decision (or make progress on a decision) that is misaligned with the Charter. Thats the only fir…
Turn that on it’s head - was he standing in the way of a commercial sale or agreement with Microsoft!
He may not be the villain.
But who knows, it feels like an episode of silicon valley!
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#478I suspect that some big news of data leak or some other security incident is about to follow.
Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
#479Can't say I saw this coming. This is deeply sad to me. OpenAI did so much life changing work so quickly. It has totally changed my life in terms of enabling an absolutely unprecedented increase in my own personal productivity and how ambitious I can be with my projects. And even though I know Sam didn't personally code the key things, I believe that it never would have happened the way it did without his instincts an…
The dude is just a businessman through and through. Stop idol worshiping these businessman. We'll have another rogue Elon Musk. At least Elon Musk is exposing himself now for what he is, but he has so much money at this point it has no effect on him to do random weird nonsense. Sam Altman seemed quite slimy to me, with his actions, garnering support by talking about UBI and advocating for it, but then going to talk to US Congress to talk about regulations (because it benefits himself).
The man was starting to seem like a huge con and people just seem to not see through that.
Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
#480Extremely shocking.
The only thing that comes to mind is criminal conduct. Nothing else seems to demand a sudden firing. OpenAI has clearly been the rocket ship startup - a revolutionary tool and product clearly driving the next decade?+ of innovation. What else would demand a a fast firing of the popular, articulate, and photogenic CEO but a terrible problem?