Greg just quit too: https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559
OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
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#622I'd be willing to put money down that Altman was embezzling funds. See worldcoin.
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#624Can'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…
Look at all his other leadership jobs. The only other company of note is YCombinator, which was running well before and after his time there. So what makes him so great? Seems more likely that he was not as essential to OpenAI’s success as you give him credit for. Honestly, giving Microsoft a 49% stake for $10B seemed really short-sighted to me and will hamstring the company in the future.
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#625- 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…
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#626This totally business-as-usual post from Greg Brockman happened 1 hour before the one from OpenAI: https://x.com/gdb/status/1725595967045398920
https://x.com/openai/status/1725611900262588813
How crazy is that?!
(Edit 2 minutes after) .. and /there/ Greg quit!!
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#627Greg Brockman quitted. https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559
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#628- 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…
Prediction: board resignation.
Sam Altman returns.
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#630What's expected of AI: AI progress will leave us jobless.
What's actually happed with AI: it's CEO is jobless now.