Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

Post by lyu07282 » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 6:14 AM UTC

bufferoverflow wrote: post #204

azurezyq wrote: post #152

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You know, we are dealing with people and people think differently so they won't move altogether. Moving to a new company under Alt is not an easy choice, at least the new company: - Does not yet have a big model (need $$$ and months to train, if code is ready) - Does not have proprietary code OpenAI has right now - Does not have labeled data ($$$ and time) and chatgpt logs - Does not have ChatGpt brand...

I thought GPT-4 was not trained on labeled data, but simply on a large volume of text / code. Most of it is publicly accessible: wikipedia, archives of scientific articles, books, github, plus probably purchased data from text-heavy sites like Reddit.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 6:14 AM UTC

fsckboy wrote: post #223

I'm actually getting tired of this whole story, jeez. they had an interim CEO: why exactly do they need a new interim CEO? it's been a couple of weekend days, zero business days. Not taking sides, none of this makes any sense, so much drama. hypothesis: there's too much money on the table, and inasmuch as some people care more about the public welfare than money, too much of that too (meaning, a lot of money in somet…

Post by jumelles » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 6:14 AM UTC

TechnicolorByte wrote: post #57

I still cannot process what’s happened to one of the most prominent and hyped companies of the past year in just one weekend. If it’s true that Altman won’t return to OpenAI (or alternatively: that the current board won’t step down) then where does that leave OpenAI? Microsoft can’t be happy, as evidenced by reporting that Nadella was acting as mediator to bring him back. Does OpenAI survive this? Will be super inter…

Post by chubot » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 6:15 AM UTC

zombiwoof wrote: post #142

chubot wrote: post #108

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What I think is funny is how the whole "we're just doing this to make sure AI is safe" meme breaks down, if you have OpenAI, Anthropic, and Altman AI all competing, which seems likely now. Do you really need all 3? Is each one going to claim that they're the only ones who can develop AGI safely? Since Sam left, now OpenAI is unsafe? But I thought they were the safe ones, and he was being reckless. Or is Sam just goin…

Two words: Laundry Buddy Sam doomed himself. Laundry Buddy is the new Clippy

Post by paulddraper » Mon, Nov 20, 2023, 6:15 AM UTC

CSMastermind wrote: post #196

jxi wrote: post #111

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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.