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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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Post by ryzvonusef »

nikcub wrote: post #301

Put 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 -…

screenshots of your comment are now being spread on twitter, thought you should know.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by spend_thrift »

autaut wrote: post #800

Happy. I never heard him say anything even remotely interesting about ai. He seemed a glib opportunist just not dumb enough to know how to sell a product he didn’t understand who eventually would have alienated or pushed out all the smart people who made the company’s and his success.

So you don't think the "AI device" he was working with Johnny Ive and Masayoshi Son would have worked out...

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by csomar »

gzer0 wrote: post #312

Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google has this to say: https://x.com/ericschmidt/status/1725625144519909648?s=20 Sam Altman is a hero of mine. He built a company from nothing to $90 Billion in value, and changed our collective world forever. I can't wait to see what he does next. I, and billions of people, will benefit from his future work- it's going to be simply incredible. Thank you @sama for all you have done for al…

Here is what's wrong about that statement: Sam Altman did not "build" Open AI from nothing to $90Bn. Open AI raised $1bn from several investors and had top talents. Sam managed the company through that. But I am certain other people given the same circumstances will be able to do more or less the same.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by stellalo »

MichaelMoser123 wrote: post #736

(not directly related) Wow, i just asked google bard, and it already said something about the firing of Sam Altman. How is that possible? Is that some plug-in, or is the LLM updated continuously? > why was sam altman fired from openai? Sam Altman, the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, was fired on November 17, 2023, after the company's board determined that he had not been consistently candid in his communications with t…

Probably via retrieval augmented generation (RAG) https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/rag

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by tchalla »

gordon_freeman wrote: post #788

From NYT article [1] and Greg's tweet [2] "In a post to X Friday evening, Mr. Brockman said that he and Mr. Altman had no warning of the board’s decision. “Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today,” he wrote. “We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened.” Mr. Altman was asked to join a video meeting with the board at noon on Friday and was immediately fired, according to Mr. Broc…

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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by csomar »

nikcub wrote: post #301

Put 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 -…

This is a pretty good orchestration of events. Given the high profile nature of the organization here, it would be prudent for the board to have defended (legally speaking) their side. Sam might be complicit in something and they used that to boot him. Only time will tell now.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by quickthrower2 »

tchalla wrote: post #838
gordon_freeman wrote: post #788

From NYT article [1] and Greg's tweet [2] "In a post to X Friday evening, Mr. Brockman said that he and Mr. Altman had no warning of the board’s decision. “Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today,” he wrote. “We too are still trying to figure out exactly what happened.” Mr. Altman was asked to join a video meeting with the board at noon on Friday and was immediately fired, according to Mr. Broc…

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What should they use? Self hosted Jitsi?
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