Sam Altman's knack for dodging bullets with a little help from bigshot friends

Post by Timber-6539 » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 3:24 AM UTC

sumedh wrote: post #145

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He should be making investors money. That's his #1 job. Aside from that, who cares about loyalty to the CEO of a tech company. He's a replaceable employee and OpenAI should be able to continue without him. What were his actual crimes. It's not clear from the previous board nor anyone who's spoken about the matter what those were.

> That's his #1 job. That was not is #1 job as per the charter, that why all this controversy started.

Post by Timber-6539 » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 3:36 AM UTC

voxl wrote: post #128

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> “The senior leadership team was unanimous in asking for Sam’s return as CEO and for the board’s resignation, actions backed by an open letter signed by over 95% of our employees. The strong support from his team underscores that he is an effective CEO,” said an OpenAI spokeswoman. This is where I stopped reading. At the risk of sounding defensive of Sam Altman. If there's something so fundamentally wrong with him,…

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Post by throwaway2037 » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 3:41 AM UTC

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Someone has to be skilled enough in fundraising to be able to raise the money to get the talent to do the thing. That alone is a difficult skill to master. It’s often harder to do than to be able to create great things. Carmack and Woz are legends for a reason.

None of these people were skilled at fundraising. Their opportunities were inherited.

Post by throwaway2037 » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 3:44 AM UTC

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This is a fallacy. You can't say "this other CEO did something" if you're trying to make a point about Sam. If you have a problem with Sam doing something illegal, say it. I'm not saying Sam has never done anything illegal, but most of the outrage seems to be that he doesn't follow social/business norms (not that he doesn't follow rules/regulations/laws).

The outrage is mostly focused on the fact that he doesn’t seem to tell the truth.

Post by kevinventullo » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 4:01 AM UTC

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does anyone in the brave new AI community have the patience and humility to try to solve the hallucinations problem? I think this is akin to asking if anyone in the software engineering community has the patience and humility to try to solve the software bugs problem.

Nope, those are very different. Fundamentally the reason that LLMs hallucinate is because they are predicting the next most likely word. It would be expensive to find a way to remove outputs where P truth is low, but it's not completely implausible like removing software bugs.