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OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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post #122

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Never assume someone is winning a game of 5D chess when someone else could just be losing a game of checkers.

what does that even mean?

He is saying that what might seem like a sophisticated, well-planned strategy could actually be just the outcome of basic errors or poor decisions made by someone else.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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post #155

If they join Sam Altman and Greg Brockman at Microsoft they will not need to start from scratch because Microsoft has full rights [1] to ChatGPT IP. They can just fork ChatGPT. Also keep in mind that Microsoft hasn't actually given OpenAI $13 Billion because much of that is in the form of Azure credits. So this could end up being the cheapest acquisition for Microsoft: They get a $90 Billion company for peanuts. [1]…

I got the impression that the most valuable models were not published. Would Microsoft have access to those too according to their contract?

Don't they need access to the models to use them for Bing?

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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post #56

> Remarkably, the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever, the company’s CTO who has been blamed for coordinating the boardroom coup against Altman in the first place. What in the world is happening at OpenAI?

Ilya is much less active on Twitter than the others. The rumors that blamed him emerged and spread like wildfire and he did nothing to stop it because he probably only checks Twitter once a week.

He says he regrets his action, so he's not blameless. and it wouldn't have been possible for 3/6ths of the board to oust Brockman and Altman without his vote. My bet (entirely conjecture) is that Ilya now realizes the other three will refuse to leave their board seats even if it means the company melts to the ground.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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For people who appreciate some vintage British comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpc5_3B5xdk The whole thing is just ridiculous. How can you be senior leadership and not have a clear idea of what you want? And what the staff want?

Knew it had to be Benny Hill before I clicked. Yackty-sax indeed.

Indeed. I wonder how it came to become the anthem of incompetence.

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never assume someone is winning a game of 5D chess when someone else could just be losing a game of checkers.

what does that even mean?

In other words - it doesn’t have to be someone’s genius plan, it could have just been an unintelligent mistake

Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns

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post #18

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If it weren’t so unbelievable, I’d almost accuse them of orchestrating all this to sell to Microsoft without the regulatory scrutiny. It’s like they distressed the company to make an acquisition one of mercy instead of aggression, knowing they already had their buyer lined up.

I haven't seen brand suicide like this since EM dumped Twitter for X!!! (4 months ago)

It's nothing like it. What common people use is ChatGPT, many of them never heard about OpenAI, not even mention who sits on the board etc. And their core offering is more popular than ever. With Twitter, Musk started to damage the product itself, step by step. As far as I can tell ChatGPT continues to work just fine, as opposed to X.
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