Greg Brockman quits OpenAI • Hacker News Board

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

#31

Post by friendlynokill » Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 12:22 AM UTC

Holy shit

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

#32

Post by babl-yc » Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 12:22 AM UTC

dnissley wrote: post #13

babl-yc wrote: post #11

So given that there are 6 board members, Ilya had to have voted to oust Sam?

Presumably Sam recused himself so not necessarily

Why would he recuse himself? Sam seemed happy to work at OpenAI.

FWIW, radio silence from Ilya on twitter https://twitter.com/ilyasut

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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Post by bangalore » Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 12:22 AM UTC

How do I profit from this news. Should I buy or sell MSFT?

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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Post by bananapub » Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 12:22 AM UTC

jumploops wrote: post #10

Greg is the one who announced GPT-4. Sam enabled Greg and vice-versa. The next AI winter may have just begun...

what a fucking ridiculous statement - sam altman is just a YC VC machine man, and I'm sure openai can find another CTO in the hottest ML market in history.

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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Post by robswc » Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 12:23 AM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #20

Is there some weird chic thing where you intentionally don’t use capital letters? What is up with that behaviour? Is it some cute attempt at saying “an AI didn’t write this”?

Yea, I'm not a fan. I'm not grammar nazi but it makes reading a bit unpleasant.

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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Post by bananapub » Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 12:23 AM UTC

georgehill wrote: post #15

Building something on top of GPT, I am now worried.

why? you should always assume that your dependencies might go down, or shut up shop, or become your competitor.

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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Post by Zaheer » Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 12:24 AM UTC

Given Greg seems to not have known about the board meeting there's a good chance Mira didn't either. Is she next?

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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Post by dougmwne » Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 12:24 AM UTC

crop_rotation wrote: post #22

This all seems so weird, and the list of Board members doesn't make this any easier to understand. Apart from the 3 insiders, there are 3 other board members. 2 of them seem complete no names and might not qualify for any important corporate board. In a for profit shareholders in theory control the board, in a non profit I am not even sure of who really has control over things.

The board does and they are not supposed to have a financial stake in the non-profit. Usually they just vote their friends on. Welcome to the loony tunes that is nonprofit management.

Clearly Microsoft staked its whole product roadmap on 4 random people with no financial skin in the game.

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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Post by devin » Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 12:24 AM UTC

bangalore wrote: post #33

How do I profit from this news. Should I buy or sell MSFT?

I did both. ;)

Re: Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 12:24 AM UTC

Waterluvian wrote: post #20

Is there some weird chic thing where you intentionally don’t use capital letters? What is up with that behaviour? Is it some cute attempt at saying “an AI didn’t write this”?

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