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Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
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Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
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I don't think a VC techbro is the best bet for humanity's future. A strong non-profit with clear goals and full transparency is 100% better.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#193Can’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
Most employees are on the profit-sharing-esque compensation.
And guess what OpenAI will not be focusing on? Profit.
They are not gonna quit tomorrow. They will leave over time due to the low compensation.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#194Can’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
Capital seems to be on Altman's side, they may make a good deal by jumping ship...
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#195I think Adam D'Angelo has a very strong conflict of interest and shouldn't have been on the board of OpenAI. I'm sure Quora views took a hit after ChatGPT. Not like Quora was any good before ChatGPT, they just managed to get to the top of Google results for a lot of common questions. Now, Poe by Quora was trying to go big on custom agents. The GPT Agents announcement on DevDay was a fundamental threat to Poe in many…
I could be wrong, but I thought I saw something about Quora's use of LLMs improving their SEO (the LLM answer to most questions is embedded on the Quora page) and potentially driving more traffic.
If you look at Poe as a value add for existing Quora users, instead of a feature that is going to grow their userbase, it's still a net win for Quora even if GPT agents exist simultaneously.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#196So long Mira Murati. That's the second CEO OpenAI has ousted in one week. https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transiti...
Her move makes even less sense than what the board did. The board told her the day before that they're firing Sam, so she obviously accepted it. But, one day later she caves and sides with Sam (that's what the heart tweet means)? That's weak leadership and resolve.
Seems pretty reasonable she would accept it at first while she was still figuring out what's going on.
Like the board presumably called her and said, "hey Sam is out, you're the CEO for now, more details to come"
And then in the next 48 hours she had a chance to talk to Sam and others and realize that she was on his side.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#197So long Mira Murati. That's the second CEO OpenAI has ousted in one week. https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transiti...
Her move makes even less sense than what the board did. The board told her the day before that they're firing Sam, so she obviously accepted it. But, one day later she caves and sides with Sam (that's what the heart tweet means)? That's weak leadership and resolve.
Quite the contrary, that’s strong leadership having the courage to do so under those extreme circumstances.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty much every researcher I know at OpenAI who are on twitter re-tweeted Sam Atlman's heart tweet with their own heart or some other supportive message. I'm sure that's a sign that they are all team Sam - this includes a ton of researchers you see on most papers that came out of OpenAI. That's a good chunk of their research team and that'd be a very big loss. Also there are tons of engineers (and I know a few of t…
It's always been my observation that the actual heavyweights of any hardcore engineering project are the ones that avoid snarky lightweight platforms like twitter like the plague. I would imagine that if you based hiring and firing decisions on the metric of 'how often this employee tweets' you could quite effectively cut deadwood. With that in mind...
Completely disagree: Yann LeCun, John Carmack, Rui Ueyama, Andrei Alexandrescu, Matt Goldbolt, Horace He, Tarun Chitra, George Hotz, etc.
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#199It seems the problem with the monopoly of AI solved itself!
Re: Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down
#200Earlier 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
Survive as existing? They will. But this is a disaster that can't be sugarcoated. Working in an AI company with a doomer as head is ridiculous. It will be like working in a tobacco company advocating for lung cancer awareness. I don't think the new CEO can do anything to get back trust in record short amount of time. The sam loyalists will leave. The question remain, how is the new CEO going to hire new people, and w…
Surely the employees knew before joining that OpenAI is a non-profit aiming to develop safe AGI?