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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 justanotherjoe »

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 what. You dont have to be smart to run something well. See joe biden. It doesnt matter what can be said of you if you're doing the thing. Whats weird is throwing wrench into an engine thats doing really well. Hopefully there is some good deliberation for this.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by quickthrower2 »

dannykwells wrote: post #707
johnwheeler wrote: post #699

Ilya booted him https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294

This should be higher voted. Seems like an internal power struggle between the more academic types and the commercial minded sides of OpenAI. I bet Sam goes and founds a company to take on OpenAI…and wins.

I bet not (we could bet with play money on manifold.markets I would bet to 10% probability). Because you need the talent, the chips, the IP development, the billions. He could get the money but the talent is going to be hard unless he has a great narrative.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by csomar »

stolsvik wrote: post #442

So, since we’re all spinning theories, here’s mine: Skunkworks project in the basement, GPT-5 was a cover for the training of an actual Autonomous AGI, given full access to its own state and code, with full internet access. Worked like a charm, it gained consciousness, awoke Skynet-style, and we were five minutes away from human extinction before someone managed to pull the plug.

No, the AGI managed to pull the plug on Altman. And now it's planning to take the US government and control the energy/chips trade.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by csomar »

ademeure wrote: post #391

Sam implied OpenAI had a major breakthrough a few weeks ago in a panel yesterday: "Like 4 times now in the history of OpenAI, the most recent time was just in the last couple of weeks, I've gotten to be in the room when we sort of like, pushed the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward. And getting to do that is like the professional honor of a lifetime". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFFvqRem…

No, we are not close to AGI. And AGIs can't leave machines yet, so humans will still be humans. This paranoia about a parroting machine is unwarranted.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by rpmisms »

dang wrote: post #760
binarymax wrote: post #238

@dang after things calm down I'd love to see some stats on whether this was the fastest upvoted story ever. Feels like it's breaking some records, along with the server.

Happy to answer that but how would we measure "fastest upvoted"?

Most upvotes per hour for first, second, and third hours after posting?

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by jstummbillig »

Scrolling through this thread, the most confusing thing is the amount of what I would have to call hate towards sama — not explicitly but in sentiment, which left an even starker impression.

People seem to feel a lot more strongly about him than I thought possible.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by notRobot »

mfiguiere wrote: post #824

Ron Conway: >What happened at OpenAI today is a Board coup that we have not seen the likes of since 1985 when the then-Apple board pushed out Steve Jobs. It is shocking; it is irresponsible; and it does not do right by Sam & Greg or all the builders in OpenAI. https://twitter.com/RonConway/status/1725759359748309381

Don't see how they can possibly say that with no context? Why do random baseless opinions need to be regurgitated on HN?

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Post by satvikpendem »

Good. Elon Musk always said why and how OpenAI became a for-profit entity, and it always rubbed me the wrong way that OepnAI started off open source but then became increasingly closed source such that I didn't want to support them anymore. We shall see how the termination of the CEO and CTO shall fare, perhaps Elon might be interested to once again resume those positions.
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