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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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Post by emodendroket »

didibus wrote: post #569
ansk wrote: post #448

The contrast between the media's depiction of today's events with this outcome demonstrates how much Sam and his aligned interests can influence a narrative. The vast majority of reporting indicated that Sam held all the leverage, the board members were about to be fired, and a new board would be appointed which would be much better aligned with Sam. These accounts took special care to portray the current board as in…

I'm still surprised how little attention there has been on the fact that Sam Altman's sister is accusing him of sexually assaulting her when she was younger. His own sister, even if it's not true, it reflects poorly to have this kind of relationship with your sister that she'd say this, and if it's true, it's very problematic. And for some reason, very very little mention of this. I just find it suspicious from a med…

Where has this been reported?

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

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Post by bmitc »

ignoramous wrote: post #581
browserman wrote: post #552

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kara Swisher was basically working as Altman’s press secretary

I don't get the vibe that Swisher particularly likes techbros or billionaires, let alone bat for them.

Have you read her recent Tweets on the matter? She was definitely editorializing quite subjectively in favor of Altman. That's not exactly unbiased journalism happening.

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Post by quietthrow »

chimney wrote: post #540
mfiguiere wrote: post #416

TheInformation: Dozens of Staffers Quit OpenAI After Sutskever Says Altman Won’t Return >Dozens of OpenAI staffers internally announced they were quitting the company Sunday night, said a person with knowledge of the situation, after board director and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever told employees that fired CEO Sam Altman would not return. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/dozens-of-staffers-q...

Isn't this expected? Nearly everyone who joined post ChatGPT was primarily financially motivated. What is more interesting is how many of the core research team stays.

This. Very accurate. At the end of they day this is a battle between academics and capitalists and what they stand for. We generally know how this typically goes…

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

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Post by xcv123 »

threeseed wrote: post #308
loveparade wrote: post #290

For a change, maybe it'd be a good idea to get a CEO who at least has faint idea about how ML works on a technical level? Would you like a company that builds rockets to be led by some salesman who doesn't understand basic Physics? Probably not. You don't need to be Hinton or Schmidhuber, but come on, who thinks it's a good idea to have these typical "Silicon Valley VC CEOs" lead an AI company?

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Elon Musk has a degree in physics.

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

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Post by bmitc »

justrealist wrote: post #353
loveparade wrote: post #290

For a change, maybe it'd be a good idea to get a CEO who at least has faint idea about how ML works on a technical level? Would you like a company that builds rockets to be led by some salesman who doesn't understand basic Physics? Probably not. You don't need to be Hinton or Schmidhuber, but come on, who thinks it's a good idea to have these typical "Silicon Valley VC CEOs" lead an AI company?

What special credentials do you think Sam Altman had in AI?

I think the commenter you replied to was saying that Altman doesn't have special or any credentials for AI.

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vasco wrote: post #560
frabcus wrote: post #434

"I specifically say I’m in favor of slowing down, which is sort of like pausing except it’s slowing down. If we’re at a speed of 10 right now, a pause is reducing to 0. I think we should aim for a 1-2 instead." - Emmett Shear, Sep 16, 2023 https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1703178063306203397?t=8nHS...

Rest in peace OpenAI. Microsoft's investment might have just gone from one of the best of the decade to one of the worst in the course of a weekend.

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Post by wonnage »

loveparade wrote: post #396
kiidev wrote: post #379

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another of Musk’s lies that keeps being propagated “ In 1995, he was accepted to a PhD program in materials science at Stanford University.[64][65] However, Musk decided to join the Internet boom, dropping out two days after being accepted and applied for a job at Netscape” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

Maybe read my comment again? There is no lie. I said accepted, not attended. And if you've ever tried to get into a PhD program at Stanford you'd know that isn't easy unless you have, you know, at least a little bit of knowledge of the field. So the parent claiming that Elon Musk doesn't even know basic Physics is blatantly wrong.

Great so now we're treating getting accepted to a PhD as though you actually completed one.

Virtually every STEM graduate from colleges like Stanford is eligible for a graduate program somewhere, it's not that big of a deal

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Post by [deleted] »

frabcus wrote: post #434

"I specifically say I’m in favor of slowing down, which is sort of like pausing except it’s slowing down. If we’re at a speed of 10 right now, a pause is reducing to 0. I think we should aim for a 1-2 instead." - Emmett Shear, Sep 16, 2023 https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1703178063306203397?t=8nHS...

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

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Post by dehrmann »

PepperdineG wrote: post #300
himaraya wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Emmett's just a placeholder after Murati turned. I suspect he won't stay in his position for long.

Recursive Interim CEOs. Will there be a Mandelbrot set of Interim CEOs?

And people say there aren't real-world applications to n-ary tree rebalancing.
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