He might as well come back if the entire board resigns and he gets to pick the new board and turn it into a C corp.
And then rename it ProfitAI, so as to satisfy all of the "Open" nay-sayers?
Just call it "Foundation".
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
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#12With the way they fired him and the statement they made, it's hard to see how any of the remaining four could stay on if he did come back... as was previously mentioned, if you shoot at the king, don't miss.
At least the 3 independent members will be gone. Either will try to burry the hatchet with Ilya or he leaves as well.
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#13I don’t understand why and how they didn’t consider this sort of discussion before so unceremoniously firing him. The others on the board outside Ilya need to go.
I don’t consider anybody beyond forgiveness and if Ilya takes a professional lesson from this and Sam learns to be more mindful of others’ concerns, I consider this a win for all. Starting over in a new entity sounds great but would be years of setback.
I hope they work this out.
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#14What if he want to fire all of them? Or take all power?
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#15He might as well come back if the entire board resigns and he gets to pick the new board and turn it into a C corp.
That would be the worst timeline. This shakeup has me 1% hopeful OpenAI will actually return to being a non-profit in spirit, not just name.
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#16This is going to make an amazing Netflix film in a few years.
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#17I cannot imagine the clown car that is the board surviving if Sam comes back.
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#18Are you fucking kidding me?
OK. OK. I’ve said this my whole career.
Engineers are the most emotional specie of worker. There is a grand delusion that engineers are rational.
This just goes to show how irrational they are. Snap reactions like this: sign of a brilliant but fucked up engineer.
I am an engineer. I am under no illusion that I’m rational. Quite the opposite.
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#19Man that just screams chaos and disorder. I wonder what it's like right now in the internal chats.
Great training data
Re: OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
#20He might as well come back if the entire board resigns and he gets to pick the new board and turn it into a C corp.
That would be the worst timeline. This shakeup has me 1% hopeful OpenAI will actually return to being a non-profit in spirit, not just name.
I can imagine many worse timelines.