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

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i'm still not clear what the accusation against Altman was... something about being cavalier about safety? if that was the claim and it has merit, i don't understand why it wasn't right to oust him, and why the employees are clamoring for him back

Employees care about their share value$. That worked well with Altman raising big rounds.

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

#112
post #16

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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?

By abrupt way it was carried, it gives me the impression it was a conflict of personalities.

I don't buy the Q* talk.

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

#113
post #26

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As he should, in his public communication. Talking bad about anyone would only reflect poorly on Sam. In private, I can only assume he’s a lot less diplomatic.

He doesn't look like the guy into revenge. He seems extremely goal focused and motivated. The kind of person that'd put this behind him very fast to save energy for what matters.

> He doesn't look like the guy into revenge.

How do you know this?

Idk why this is the comment that broke the camel's back for me, but all over this site people have been making character determinations about people from a million miles away through the filter of their public personas.

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

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"Open"AI and for-profit. This company is a troubled mess and if it were not for the "potential" money, employees wouldn't be putting up with this nonsense. Sad to see Ilya getting sidelined as shown by this "...are discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI".

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

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You wrote in general terms and then afterwards made them specific again. I just answered your comment, which is a subthread all by itself.

If you don't like the way HN works that's fine but I don't think you should be making further statements here until you've had a look at the guidelines.

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

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

With his mission?

His mission is super alignment

So out of all the companies, possibly only Google can provide a model to him right now to do the alignment work

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

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If you’re concerned about the data security of OpenAI there’s always the OpenAI products served from Azure. At $DAYJOB we are working various AI features and it was a lot easier to get Azure through our InfoSec process than OpenAI.

Don’t those just go through OpenAI anyway?

No. Microsoft have access to OpenAI models, they don't use OpenAI APIs etc.
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