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OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors

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Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors

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Post by coffeebeqn »

swatcoder wrote: post #30
FanaHOVA wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Non profit / social focus person, media and entertainment person (that NYT suit might be followed by other m&e companies), direct to consumer + "real world digitalization" person.

Exactly. It's not random, it's revealing. You can see them starting to aim towards their first commercial bets beyond search and developer tools while still paying lip service to the safety cult.

I still don’t understand the safety concerns. I see a 0% chance that we can control a superhuman AI. What could ants invent to keep humans aligned with them? Alignment meaning that people would think of ants first instead of whatever their current ranking is. Maybe they’re in the top 10000 priorities

Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors

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Post by jprete »

nozzlegear wrote: post #96
DSingularity wrote: post #69

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We (humans) are so cheap and easily deceived. They pick us large salaries and we build whatever. They pander and we become subservient.

Do you feel that none of them have any merit outside of them being women, and that there was some kind of “best potential OpenAI director” exam that all men are required to take but these three were allowed to skip because of their gender? Is that the deception?

I'm not the GP, but one can believe that it's cheap pandering, and simultaneously that the three of them have merit outside of that pandering. It's not required to be all one or all the other.

Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors

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Post by freedomben »

gkoberger wrote: post #88
InvestorType wrote: post #84

Interesting they chose 3 more left leaning board members. Surprising an AI-focused company wouldn't have more diversity of perspective at the governance level.

What things do you think a conservative board member would bring that's currently missing? A distaste for big government? Interest in trickle-down economics? Or is this just a weird way of saying OpenAI should be more comfortable indulging in racism and homophobia? Because there's one "right-leaning" major AI (Grok), and as far as I can tell that's the only differentiating feature.

> Because there's one "right-leaning" major AI (Grok), and as far as I can tell that's the only differentiating feature.

Did you actually look into that or did you just make assumptions?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/23/grok-ai...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/10/elon-musks...

Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors

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Post by artbristol »

philip1209 wrote: post #33
chrisfosterelli wrote: post #15

I'm not necessarily saying they're wrong, but there's really no way to put out a release like this without a "history is written by the victors" vibe coming across.

“When you strike at a king, you must kill him.”

"You come at the king, you best not miss" - Omar Little

Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors

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Post by rllearneratwork »

tptacek wrote: post #59
chrisfosterelli wrote: post #15

I'm not necessarily saying they're wrong, but there's really no way to put out a release like this without a "history is written by the victors" vibe coming across.

He pretty clearly won. There's not much to it. A huge chunk of the company went into open revolt and he got a competing offer that threatened to recruit all of them. There's nothing really underhanded or sneaky about it: the board drastically overplayed their hand, and all Altman and Brockman had to do was say "I call". To use the parlance of this community of people: people's priors here all seem to be that somethin…

>> "A huge chunk of the company went into open revolt and he got a competing offer that threatened to recruit all of them"

- They had a huge funding (>80B?) round planned in which employees could cash-in. Without Sam that round was guaranteed to not happen. So they all had huge financial incentive to support them. Which I guess, characterizes him as a great manager who thinks many steps ahead.

Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors

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Post by Jensson »

jorl17 wrote: post #78
nostrademons wrote: post #67

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Nah, Steve Jobs would need to be alive for that, and they haven't come out with iResurrection yet. The public hasn't really thrown themselves into reverence for Apple since the last Jobs product announcement. Even the Apple Watch's reception was kinda lukewarm. They make good hardware, but they aren't cool hype machines the way they were a decade+ ago.

What about Apple Silicon? Not a product per se, but...

Apple started making their own silicon under Steve Jobs, nothing new there either.

Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors

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Post by k1t »

s3p wrote: post #80
chrisfosterelli wrote: post #71

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Thanks Dan.

Only sharing this because I learned it myself two months ago and think it's not common knowledge: dang actually is for dan g. and not just the word dang. he never speaks on it but someone mentioned it to me and I thought that was interesting. Anyway yes thank you dan!

He's also allegedly "muscular, bald, and loquacious"!

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

Re: OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors

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Post by gkoberger »

freedomben wrote: post #103
gkoberger wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What things do you think a conservative board member would bring that's currently missing? A distaste for big government? Interest in trickle-down economics? Or is this just a weird way of saying OpenAI should be more comfortable indulging in racism and homophobia? Because there's one "right-leaning" major AI (Grok), and as far as I can tell that's the only differentiating feature.

> Because there's one "right-leaning" major AI (Grok), and as far as I can tell that's the only differentiating feature. Did you actually look into that or did you just make assumptions? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/23/grok-ai... https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/12/10/elon-musks...

From the article you posted: "Elon Musk has been pitching xAI’s “Grok” as a funny, vulgar alternative to traditional AI that can do things like converse casually and swear at you."

Silly me for taking Elon at his word

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