Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board • Hacker News Board

3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #55

nirv wrote: post #39

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Do you comprehend that if it weren't for Microsoft OpenAI wouldn't exist, nor their products which changed the world? You don't make AI in a garage with a home PC and beer. You need gigantic amount of data, compute, and talented people to organize all this, which are exceptionally rare, and also they need to eat and feed their families too.

Oh yeah, I do comprehend how such major technologies of comparable importance are managed in NON-PROFIT organizations, Linux Foundation is for one.

If you're happy to give up total control of tech to one corporation, while the CEO of the company, using the influence of the OpenAI, attracts resources for his personal hardware start-up[1], — our views on how a not-for-profit company should be run are starkly different.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/4c64ffc1-f57b-4e22-a4a5-f9f90a741...

Re: Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board

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Post by resolutebat » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 1:51 AM UTC

WendyTheWillow wrote: post #58

Jayakumark wrote: post #37

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Google or AWS or Cohere will welcome him with open hands.

Or Microsoft.

I doubt Microsoft would be willing to host him given that they effectively control OpenAI.

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Post by simbolit » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 1:52 AM UTC

chx wrote: post #62

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the... that Sam Altman.

That's fun.

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Post by jacquesm » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 1:52 AM UTC

hipadev23 wrote: post #86

jacquesm wrote: post #59

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There is some pretty strong proof in TFA that that is not the case.

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Post by cameldrv » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 1:53 AM UTC

hipadev23 wrote: post #86

jacquesm wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is some pretty strong proof in TFA that that is not the case.

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He could easily go to Anthropic.

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Post by quickthrower2 » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 1:53 AM UTC

armchairhacker wrote: post #2

Do we have any more insight into why he was fired in the first place?

Not really, here is a prediction market on it: https://manifold.markets/sophiawisdom/why-was-sam-altman-fir...

I think the percentages don't add up to 100% as multiple can be chosen as correct.

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Post by erhaetherth » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 1:53 AM UTC

rmbyrro wrote: post #16

lulznews wrote: post #5

So even if you maintain strict board control, the money people can still kick you out. Incredible!

Not the "money people", but the extremely bad way they removed Altman, I think. It made it easy to sway employees to Altman's favor and pressure the board. If the employees were not cohesive on Altman's side, he probably wouldn't be back...

Do we know the real reason they tried kicking him out yet?

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Post by andsoitis » Thu, Nov 30, 2023, 1:54 AM UTC

resters wrote: post #50

Not to criticize Sam, but I think people don't realize that it was Greg who was the visionary behind OpenAI. Read his blog. Greg happens to be a chill, low-drama person and surely he recruited Sam because he knew he is a great communicator and exec, but it's a bit sad to see him successfully staying out of the limelight when I think he's actually the one with the rarest form of genius and grit on the team.

"Greg and I are partners in running this company. We have never quite figured out how to communicate that on the org chart, but we will. "