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Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by deadbabe »

SpaceManNabs wrote: post #9

Sam "Worldcoin" Altman regrets the loss of a friend that called him out on how OpenAi is becoming closed because the engineers realized they could make a lot of money. Doesn't seem like it is impacting the quality of the models, but it will probably impact openai's impact.

Can you blame the engineers? If you realize LLM tech is neat but ultimately overhyped and probably decades away from truly realizing the promises of general purpose AI, why not just switch goals to making as much money as you can?

Re: Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI

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Post by ptero »

ren_engineer wrote: post #18

seemed inevitable after that ouster attempt, probably just working out the details of the exit. But the day after their new features release announcement?

"Get next major feature to release and you can go as a friend" might have been part of an earlier agreement.

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Post by pinkmuffinere »

deadbabe wrote: post #21
SpaceManNabs wrote: post #9

Sam "Worldcoin" Altman regrets the loss of a friend that called him out on how OpenAi is becoming closed because the engineers realized they could make a lot of money. Doesn't seem like it is impacting the quality of the models, but it will probably impact openai's impact.

Can you blame the engineers? If you realize LLM tech is neat but ultimately overhyped and probably decades away from truly realizing the promises of general purpose AI, why not just switch goals to making as much money as you can?

This is a great observation which I have not heard before. I think it greatly changes the way I think about openAI’s success/infamy

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Post by riehwvfbk »

wavelander wrote: post #15
option wrote: post #8

I'll say it again - the one who was irreplaceable at OpenAI is Ilya, not Sam.

I wonder if that's true at a certain stage of OpenAI, which because of the product bootstrapping skills of Sam and co, has made his role irrelevant? I mean, Jakub can take it forward at the current scale and leadership team of Sam and other people, but maybe he could not have earlier, which is where Ilya shone?

OpenAI is the Altavista of AI. There's nothing there to scale yet - their product needs another batch of innovations to get good first.

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Post by jprd »

deadbabe wrote: post #21
SpaceManNabs wrote: post #9

Sam "Worldcoin" Altman regrets the loss of a friend that called him out on how OpenAi is becoming closed because the engineers realized they could make a lot of money. Doesn't seem like it is impacting the quality of the models, but it will probably impact openai's impact.

Can you blame the engineers? If you realize LLM tech is neat but ultimately overhyped and probably decades away from truly realizing the promises of general purpose AI, why not just switch goals to making as much money as you can?

Yes. They joined OpenAI with the understanding that it was meant to be an non-profit with a mission to benefit humanity.
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