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Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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Update: Looks like Barret Zoph, GPT-4's post training (co-)lead is also leaving: https://x.com/barret_zoph/status/1839095143397515452

And now Bob McGrew, Chief of Research

OpenAI is restructuring to be a for profit. Looks like that's coming with a bunch of turnover.

I'm not sure why the HN algorithm never let it hit the front page, but there's discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651548

Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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It is hard for me to square "This company is a few short years away from building world-changing AGI" and "I'm stepping away to do my own thing". Maybe I'm just bad at putting myself in someone else's shoes, but I feel like if I had spent years working towards a vision of AGI, and thought that success was finally just around the corner, it'd be very difficult to walk away.

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Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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I can't imagine investor pouring money on her. She has zero credibility both hardcore STEM like Ilya or a visionary like Jobs/Musk

She was the CTO, how does she not have STEM credibility?

Sometimes with good looks and charm, you can fall up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Murati

Point me to a single credential where you feel confident of putting your money on her?

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To be fair, that question is one of the suggested questions that OpenAI shows themselves in the UI, for the o1-preview model. (Together with 'Is a hot dog a sandwich?', which I confess I will have to ask it now.)

If you have a sandwich and cut it in half, do you have one or two sandwiches?

Yes, you do have one or two sandwiches.

Edit: oh dang, I wanted to make the “or” joke so badly that I missed the option to have zero sandwiches.

Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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Related (possibly): OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651548

I would find it hard to believe this isn't the critical factor in her departure. Surprising that the linked thread isn't getting any traction. Or not?

146 points and never hit the front page even once. There's definitely algorithmic shenanigans going on.

https://hnrankings.info/41651548/

Re: Mira Murati leaves OpenAI

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>Product manager at tesla to CTO at openAI with no technical background and a deleted profile ? Doesn't she have a dual bachelors in Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering?

Thats what is needed to get a job as a product manager these days?

Well that and years of experience leading projects. Wasn't she head of the Model X program at Tesla?

But my point is that she does have a technical background.

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