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Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

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Re: Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

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What are the odds Sam can work the phones this weekend and have $10B lined up by Monday for a new AI company which will take all of the good talent from OpenAI?

Why would the good talent leave? Are they all a "family" and best buddies with Sam?

Perhaps they don’t want to work for a board of directors which is openly hostile to the work they’re doing?

Re: Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

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post #7

Here's the thing. I've always been kind of cold on OpeanAI claiming to be "Open" when it was clearly a for profit thing and I was concerned about the increasing move to the commercialization of AI that Sam was taking. But I am much more concerned to be honest those who feel they need to control the development of AI to ensure it is "aligns with their principles", after all principles can change, and to quote Lewis "O…

Be the change you want to see.

Re: Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

they could have been beefing non-publicly for a long time, and might have had many private conversations, probably not very useful to speculate here

Not useful at all.. but it sure is fun! This is gonna be my whole dang weekend.

Probably dang's whole weekend as well.

Re: Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

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post #9

What are the odds Sam can work the phones this weekend and have $10B lined up by Monday for a new AI company which will take all of the good talent from OpenAI?

Why would the good talent leave? Are they all a "family" and best buddies with Sam?

Because they want stock options for a for-profit company.

Re: Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

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post #9

What are the odds Sam can work the phones this weekend and have $10B lined up by Monday for a new AI company which will take all of the good talent from OpenAI?

Why would the good talent leave? Are they all a "family" and best buddies with Sam?

My guess is that at least some of them are worried about shipping products and making profit, and agreed with the growth faction?

Re: Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI

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How important is Altman? How important were three senior scientists? Can they start their own company, raise funding, and overtake OpenAI in a few years? Or does OpenAI have some material advantage that isn’t likely to be harmed by this?

Perhaps the competition is inevitably a good thing. Or maybe a bad thing if it creates pressure to cut ethical corners.

I also wonder if the dream of an “open” org bringing this tech to life for the betterment of humanity is futile and the for-profits will eventually render them irrelevant.

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