Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down • Hacker News Board

Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

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Post by LudwigNagasena » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 5:45 AM UTC

karmasimida wrote: post #87

LudwigNagasena wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What can Microsoft do? Tell OpenAI they break their long-term agreement just because?..

Microsoft hasn't released all its investment into OpenAI, and I think this could trigger some special contingency in their agreement to stopping doing so. I think one thing is for certain: OpenAI now, won't worth that much any more.

Maybe they can. Maybe they can't. We don't even know if "the talks" to return Sama were just investors writing angry emails to Ilya and him replying "nuh-ah".

Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

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Post by flylib » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 5:45 AM UTC

babyshake wrote: post #112

flylib wrote: post #49

Seems like he liked anti sama stuff as well https://x.com/moridinamael/status/1725893666663768321?s=46

That's not Emmett?

he liked the tweet

Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

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Post by bufferoverflow » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 5:45 AM UTC

roddylindsay wrote: post #121

Contrarian prediction: OpenAI will be just fine. The board will bring in an adult CEO who can balance the nonprofit charter with Microsoft and the commercial business, and who doesn't have a million side projects taking his or her focus away. Some employees will leave but the vast majority will stay for the usual reasons (i.e. inertia), the business will keep growing because ChatGPT is already a worldwide brand at th…

If they don't get Altman back, Altman starts a new company AkshuallyOpenAI and most talent moves there. They quickly get the funding and the contracts with MS. OpenAI is left in the dust.

Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

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Post by voidfunc » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 5:45 AM UTC

I'm expecting lawsuits in the next day or two from Altman for libel and defamation. I'd be surprised if OpenAI investors don't go to the courts also ASAP.

Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

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Post by zombiwoof » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 5:45 AM UTC

Can’t wait to see how many staffers who said they would quit sheep their way into the office tomorrow to collect their million dollar salaries

Thanks Sam we bluffed but no way we quiting

Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

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Post by losthubble » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 5:45 AM UTC

Hopefully this leads to a lot of internal dissent and someone leaks the models

Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

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Post by matt_daemon » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 5:46 AM UTC

peanuty1 wrote: post #90

jart wrote: post #47

So long Mira Murati. That's the second CEO OpenAI has ousted in one week. https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transiti...

Thank god they went with Emmett over Murati.

Why?

Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

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Post by zombiwoof » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 5:46 AM UTC

jxf wrote: post #101

altdataseller wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OpenAI has hundreds more employees, all of whom are incredibly smart. While they will definitely lose the leadership and talent of those two, it’s not as if a nuclear bomb dropped on their HQ and wiped out all their engineers! So questioning whether they will survive seems very silly and incredibly premature to me

But a number of those other employees have said they'll leave if Altman isn't rehired.

Bullshit. They are not quitting

Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 5:46 AM UTC

roddylindsay wrote: post #121

Contrarian prediction: OpenAI will be just fine. The board will bring in an adult CEO who can balance the nonprofit charter with Microsoft and the commercial business, and who doesn't have a million side projects taking his or her focus away. Some employees will leave but the vast majority will stay for the usual reasons (i.e. inertia), the business will keep growing because ChatGPT is already a worldwide brand at th…

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Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

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Post by polygamous_bat » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 5:46 AM UTC

reducesuffering wrote: post #55

thatsadude wrote: post #34

This is ridiculous. AI doomer as the new CEO.

Bad news for you, their last CEO was too. Sam Altman signed a statement saying "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war." Looks like you're not on any of their team, but you do have crypto king Marc Andreessen. https://twitter.com/robbensinger/status/1726039794197872939

> Bad news for you, their last CEO was too.

Did anyone believe that he seriously believed in that? I thought the consensus was he was angling for a government backed monopoly with OpenAI as the “steward” of large AI models.