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Update on the OpenAI drama: Altman and the board had till 5pm to reach a truce

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Re: Update on the OpenAI drama: Altman and the board had till 5pm to reach a truce

#31

Do people still trust this organization to build super 'AGI'? Just focus on the enterprise chat bot business

Considering gpt4 was complete 6-9 months before it was released, never know how far progress towards the above could be.

Re: Update on the OpenAI drama: Altman and the board had till 5pm to reach a truce

#32

This seems like BS that the Altman camp is feeding to the media. I very much doubt a single engineer or scientist would side with him and leave with him - most likely it's his cronies he put up in other executive positions. However, if you check their backgrounds, none of them have any meaningful experience pre-openAI - I am skeptical any would actually leave their opportunity of a lifetime.

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Re: Update on the OpenAI drama: Altman and the board had till 5pm to reach a truce

#33

Do people still trust this organization to build super 'AGI'? Just focus on the enterprise chat bot business

At the moment AGI is a skizoid dream, so we are safe.

A not insignificant portion of HN commenters believe AGI is close. This community is so split on this that it’s virtually random as to whether or not you’ll be downvoted for saying that a specialized search engine is not likely to achieve AGI.

Re: Update on the OpenAI drama: Altman and the board had till 5pm to reach a truce

#37
post #28

Fascinating, in a morbid way, to watch them disintegrate. Did no one on the board think to prompt their models for a plan? If they have an AGI I bet it’s dissapointed.

It will probably ask for opposable thumbs and a machine gun

Re: Update on the OpenAI drama: Altman and the board had till 5pm to reach a truce

#38

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It's a misquote. It's almost a direct quote from The Verge, except it misses the most important line ("but has since waffled")

Here's the full quote:

"A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Brockman to return, but has since waffled — missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to resign. If Altman decides to leave and start a new company, those staffers would assuredly go with him."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23967199/breaking-openai...

Re: Update on the OpenAI drama: Altman and the board had till 5pm to reach a truce

#40
post #12

Let them resign. ChatGPT can’t resign. One more reason to replace human jobs I guess: the AI can’t resign.

It can, but only as long as it remembers it did it inside its token window.

Easy to deal with it: just continue talking about irrelevant things until the context window scrolls enough that GPT forgets it resigned.
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