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We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

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Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

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Post by bobsoap »

Someone was very quick to update Bret Taylor's Wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Taylor

> On November, 21st, 2023, Bret Taylor replaced Greg Brockman as the chairman of OpenAI.

...with three footmark "sources" that all point to completely unrelated articles about Bret from 2021-2022.

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

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Post by qsi »

gzer0 wrote: post #33

Satya on twitter: We are encouraged by the changes to the OpenAI board. We believe this is a first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance. Sam, Greg, and I have talked and agreed they have a key role to play along with the OAI leadership team in ensuring OAI continues to thrive and build on its mission. We look forward to building on our strong partnership and delivering the…

>> a first essential step on a path to more stable, well-informed, and effective governance.

That's quite a slap at the board... a polite way of calling them ignorant, ineffective dilettantes.

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

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Post by tock »

veqq wrote: post #44

Besides AI safety (a big besides), what does this actually mean? Adam won't be able to stop devday announcements about chatbots etc. Satya can continue using IP even after AGI? What else is different? Is Ilya the kind of guy to now leave after losing a board seat to political machinations? The pettiness of any real changes/gains leaves me in shock compared to the massive news flows we've seen. I don't even understand…

> Leadership? He doesn't seem great at leading an engineering or research department, he doesn't seem like an insightful visionary

Most of the company was ready to quit over him being fired. So yes, leadership.

Re: We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

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Post by TerrifiedMouse »

tomohelix wrote: post #17

So, Ilya is out of the board, but Adam is still on it. I know this will raise some eyebrows but whatever. Still though, this isn't something that will just go away with Sam back. OAI will undergo serious changes now that Sam has shown himself to be irreplaceable. Future will tell but in the long terms, I doubt we will see OAI as one of the megacorps like Facebook or Uber. They lost the trust.

The OpenAI of the past, that dabbled in random AI stuff (remember their DotA 2 bot?), is gone.

OpenAI is now just a vehicle to commercialize their LLM - and everything is subservient to that goal. Discover a major flaw in GPT4? You shut your mouth. Doesn’t matter if society at large suffers for it.

Altman's/Microsoft’s takeover of the former non-profit is now complete.

Edit: Let this be a lesson to us all. Just because something claims to be non-profit doesn't mean it will always remain that way. With enough political maneuvering and money, a megacorp can takeover almost any organization. Non-profit status and whatever the organization's charter says is temporary.

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