I wonder what's up with the other 150 and what they must be thinking. Maybe the were literally just hired :)
Some idealists, a few new people, some people on holiday or who don't check their email regularly.
OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
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#232HN desperately needs a mega thread, it's only Monday early hours, there is so much drama to come out of this.
Its early West coast time, dang has to wake up first.
I bet he's up making sure the servers aren't crashing! Thanks dang! As the west coast wakes up .. HN is going to be busy...
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#233Do whatever you want but don't break the API or I will go homeless
How likely is that the API will change (from specs, to pricing, to being broken)? I am about to finish some freelance work that uses GPT api and it will be a pain in the ass if we have to switch or find an alternative (even creating a custom endpoint on Azure...)
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#234At this point, I think it’s absolutely clear no one has any idea what happened. Every speculation, no matter how sophisticated, has been wrong. It’s time to take a breath, step back, and wait until someone from OpenAI says something substantial.
3 board members (joined by Ilya Sutskever, who is publicly defecting now) found themselves in a position to take over what used to be a 9-member board, and took full control of OpenAI and the subsidiary previously worth $90 billion.
Speculation is just on motivation, the facts are easy to establish.
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#235This was handled so very, very poorly. Frankly it's looking like Microsoft is going to come out of this better than anyone, especially if they end up getting almost 500 new AI staff out of it (staff that already function well as a team). > In their letter, the OpenAI staff threaten to join Altman at Microsoft. “Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAI employees at this new subsidiary should we…
> Microsoft is going to come out of this better than anyone Exactly. I'm curious about how much of this was planned vs emergent. I doubt it was all planned: it would take an extraordinary mind to foresee all the possible twists. Equally, it's not entirely unpredictable. MS is the easiest to read: their moves to date have been really clear in wanting to be the primary commercial beneficiary of OAI's work. OAI itself i…
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#236Earlier 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?
Hanlon's razor, basically.
The most plausible scenario here is that the board is comprised of people lacking in foresight who did something stupid. A lot of people are generating a 5D chess plot orchestrated by Microsoft in their heads.
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#237> the letter’s signees include Ilya Sutskever _Big sigh_.
Sounds like a CYA move after being under pressure from the team at large.
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#238& the most drastic thing is that Ilya says he regrets what he has done and undersign the public statement.
Re: OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
#239This was handled so very, very poorly. Frankly it's looking like Microsoft is going to come out of this better than anyone, especially if they end up getting almost 500 new AI staff out of it (staff that already function well as a team). > In their letter, the OpenAI staff threaten to join Altman at Microsoft. “Microsoft has assured us that there are positions for all OpenAI employees at this new subsidiary should we…
“Employees” probably means “engineers” in this case. Which is a wide majority of OpenAI staff, I’m sure.
I'm assuming it's a combination of researchers, data scientists, mlops engineers, and developers. There are a lot of different areas of expertise that come into building these models.