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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

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Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#101

WOW! Clearly some funny business going on at OpenAI, as people have speculated. I always assumed Sam Altman was too smart to be in a situation like this. I have heard grumblings about suspicious corporate structuring, behind the scenes profit taking, etc. All speculation though. The All In podcast had some words about this a few months ago, though they spoke in generalities.

The key issue: There is no I in the AI.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#106
Sorry to be off topic, but I am curious what he will be doing in the very near future. He has been running OpenAI for many years, and no matter what the reason for his leaving, I think he deserves some serious down time to do a personal refresh.

He is a major investor in a few high profile startups, like Humana’s AI Pin, so either he just wants new challenges, or there is some form of scandal (let’s all hope not), or there are issues on not going full steam ahead in profitability.

Re: OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

#108

Maybe Microsoft holds some sway? Sam made a snide tweet at them a few days ago. Running the whole Dev Day demo on Mac's might also be taken as some kind of statement.

Haha yeah they are kicking out the CEO of their most profitable venture because he uses a mac.
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