Satya is the best CEO in tech and it isnt even close
Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
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Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#202Say it with me, folks - Embrace, extend, extinguish.
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#203What motivates Sam to join Microsoft? Could it be the proximity of achieving AGI and his desire to remain competitive without starting from scratch?
One word: GPUs
Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#204I'm guessing this is the end of OpenAI. People aren't going to want to work at OpenAI anymore due to the value destruction that just occurred. It's going to be hard for them to raise money now because of the bad rep they have now. It going to be hard for them to hire top talent. You have two leaders, top engineers and researchers leaving the company. Google and Facebook come in a grab up any top talent that still the…
They're going to have to give up control of the board to get more investment. No investor wants these loose cannons in charge of their investments.
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#205Not unexpected, MS is betting everything on AI. On the other hand, MS is a corporation in which lions are lead by donkeys. We had windows phones that was excellent and in the right place and then couple of product managers fucked it up. We have windows that is becoming even better underneath and then you have people that thought Cortana and Bing search in the bar were good ideas. So Ilya can be safe that whatever pot…
imo Satya is a different ball game compared to Ballmer. I wouldn't put a lot of emphasis on msft's track record pre-Satya personally.
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#206This isnt the win people seem to think it is, at least not for end users. Micosoft dont buy companies and people to keep releasing free standalone products. They buy them to integrate into Windows.
Cortana 2.0 incoming.
Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
Satya will probably allow them to run a startup under the MS umbrella without interference and with full MS backing.
Yeah... Not really how a mega-corp like MSFT does things. They LOVE to have control.
It is Satya we are talking about, I won't bet against him.
Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#208Plot twist: it was Satya who planted the idea in the OpenAI's board's mind to fire Sam in the first place... Inception-style.
Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#209Wouldn’t there be employment contracts and laws around competitive behavior that come into play here?
If Sam had left OpenAI on his own accord to do this, certainly.
Since the board fired him and basically nuked his best-effort plan to return - I highly doubt that OpenAI's legal team has anything of substance here. Even if they do, I wouldn't doubt for a second that Microsoft already has its entire legal team ready to play hardball defense.
Overall, a complete loss-loss for OpenAI's board. What a weekend.
Re: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except they only had AI model velocity and not product velocity. The user-side implementation of chatGPT is actually quite below what would be expected based on their AI superiority. So the parts that Sam & Greg should be responsible for are actually not great.
Just curious what do you think is bad about the user side experience of chatgpt? It seems pretty slick to me and I use it most days.
Not being able to define instructions per “chat” window (or having some sort of a profile) is something I find extremely annoying.